Mariupol. File photoMOSCOW, Apr 13On the 49th day of the special operation in Ukraine, the allied forces of Russia and the DPR completely liberated the seaport of Mariupol, the largest city on the coast of the Sea of Azov, from the enemy. In addition, the Russian army destroyed 36 military installations in the operation area, including command posts. US President Joe Biden announced that Washington is providing Kiev with a new $800 million military aid package that will include artillery, armored personnel carriers and helicopters. Against this background, as the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said, negotiations between Russia and Ukraine in an online format are continuing, but Kyiv is doing everything to delay them.PORT AND DECISION-MAKING CENTERS Wednesday, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov. In addition, Russia will strike at decision-making centers, including in Kiev. Over Wednesday, the Russian armed forces destroyed 36 military facilities in Ukraine, including command posts, troop concentration sites and headquarters. On Wednesday, Russian military aviation hit another 10 objects of the Ukrainian army, including a command post, and in total, since the beginning of the special operation, Russia has destroyed 447 enemy drones. PEOPLE AND VESSELS already more than 2.7 million, said the head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev. However, the Ukrainian side has not announced a single humanitarian corridor for the current day. According to Mizintsev, the Ukrainian military blocked 450 civilians in the Nikolo-Vasilyevsky monastery in the village of Nikolskoye, Volnovakha district of the DPR, and also hold 6.2 thousand foreigners from 11 countries hostage. In Kramatorsk and Zaporozhye, the military of Ukraine is equipping positions in schools and a hospital, holding residents like a human shield. In addition, the Kiev authorities still do not want to resolve the issue of foreign ships blocked in the country's ports, Mizintsev added. Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Oleg Syromolotov in an interview with RIA Novosti stated that the Ukrainian military is conducting military operations using terrorist methods, placing artillery in residential areas and blocking civilians from evacuating. >Day 45: Kyiv is preparing a provocation in Irpen, evacuation is underway from MariupolPROTELING NEGOTIATIONSThe Russian and Ukrainian sides continue negotiations on resolving the situation in Ukraine online, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said at a briefing on Wednesday. However, according to her, the Ukrainian delegation «directs its efforts not at reaching agreements, but at delaying the negotiations.» She warned that Kyiv was preparing new provocations, and Moscow urged the West not to succumb to them. Zakharova stressed: nothing will prevent the fulfillment of the goals and objectives of the special operation of the Russian Federation in Ukraine — neither the supply of weapons by Western countries to Kiev, nor intimidation. Syromolotov said that Kyiv is hatching plans for chemical provocations in the Donbass, and a repetition of terrorist attacks against enterprises with toxic substances is not ruled out. 
Russia and Ukraine continue online talksWEAPONS FOR KYIVU.S. President Joe Biden, following a telephone conversation with Vladimir Zelensky on Wednesday, announced that the United States is providing Ukraine with a new $800 million military aid package that will include artillery, armored personnel carriers and helicopters. The United States expects new military aid to Ukraine to begin immediately, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said. For its part, Paris will provide Kiev with additional military aid, which has previously spent 100 million euros, French Armed Forces Minister Florence Parly said after meeting with Ukrainian colleague Alexei Reznikov. The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, stressed at a briefing that the European Union, engaged in the supply of weapons to Ukraine, is degrading into a military-political bloc. She said that the EU has spent one and a half billion euros on arms supplies to Ukraine over the past few months. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Oleg Syromolotov said in an interview with RIA Novosti that over the past month and a half, Washington has supplied Kiev with arms worth $1.65 billion, while the Ukrainian authorities cannot ensure the safe storage of weapons supplied by NATO countries, and they may end up on the black markets of other countries.The US will allocate a new package of military assistance to Ukraine for $ 800 million OPPOSITIONER MEDVEDCHUK ARRESTSpeaker of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin said that if something happens to the head of the political council of the Opposition Platform — For Life party, Viktor Medvedchuk, who was arrested in Ukraine, Vladimir Zelensky will have to answer. On Tuesday, the head of the SBU announced the detention of Medvedchuk on behalf of Zelensky. At the end of February, the Ukrainian prosecutor's office reported about the disappearance of Medvedchuk. Later, Zelensky offered Russia to exchange the politician for the captured Ukrainian military. Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov said that the Kremlin would monitor the fate of Medvedchuk and urge European politicians to do the same. According to him, the persecution of Medvedchuk for his political views is a vivid illustration of what the Kyiv regime really is. Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Alexander Bastrykin instructed to check the legitimacy of Kyiv's actions against Medvedchuk and in connection with the demands for his exchange for Ukrainian prisoners of war. foreign and Russian journalists during the fighting in the North Caucasus, which is a very dangerous trend. At the same time, the wife of a Ukrainian politician, Oksana Marchenko, turned to Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan with a request to assist in the release of her husband.
Medvedchuk's wife recorded an appeal to Zelensky and Erdogan
