War in Ukraine, live: Volodymyr Zelensky invites the pope to be a mediator and warns Rome against an influx of migrants in the event of famine – Le Monde

https://assets-decodeurs.lemonde.fr/redacweb/ukraine-cartes-infographie/derniere-maj-ukraine-avancee-russe.pnghttps://assets-decodeurs.lemonde.fr/redacweb/ukraine-cartes-infographie/ last-maj-ukraine-avancee-russe.png30The situation on the mapAgrandir The context Live hosted by Anne Guillard, Florian Lefèvre and Clémence Apetogbor Russian troops are still trying to encircle kyiv where a new curfew has been in place since Monday at 8 p.m. local time , until Wednesday morning at 7 a.m. Ukraine will not “lay down its arms and will not leave the city” of Mariupol, its deputy prime minister said, ignoring a Russian ultimatum. The European Union has denounced the indiscriminate destruction in the besieged city as a “major war crime”. Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday rejected any Russian ultimatum and wants to meet Vladimir Putin with whom he is ready to discuss about the Donbass and Crimea. Any “compromise” in negotiations with Russia to end the conflict will be subject to a referendum in the country, the Ukrainian president said. Zelensky spoke on Monday with Emmanuel Macron and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte ahead of the G7, NATO and European Union leaders’ summits on Thursday (24 March) to coordinate their “positions”. They will be “firm, believe me,” he said in a video Monday evening. The Russian tabloid, close to the Kremlin, Komsomolskaya Pravda published, then withdrew, a report according to which the Russian Ministry of Defense identified 9,861 dead in the Russian armed forces since the start of the war in Ukraine. The article also mentions 16,153 injured. France sent, on Monday, 55 tons of medical equipment, computers, milk for children as well as generators to Ukraine via Poland, announced the Ministry of Foreign Affairs French. According to a report by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, published overnight from Monday to Tuesday, 925 civilians have been killed in Ukraine since the start of the Russian attack, and 1,496 people were injured. The agency says the true toll is likely much higher because many intelligence records have not yet been recovered. Nearly 3.5 million people have fled Ukraine since February 24, according to the count of United Nations, released Monday. Some 90% of them are women and children (Ukrainians between the ages of 18 and 60 are not allowed to leave their country). Poland alone hosts more than half of the refugees. Read all our articles, analyzes and reports on the war in Ukraine: You can find our live from yesterday on this link. Testimonials. In Kharkiv, Ukraine, “we lived our normal life, but they stole it from us” Report. In Lutsk, the fear of a Belarusian attack Story. Overwhelmed by Ukrainian refugees, the Czech Republic does not want to hear about European “quotas” Tribune. “Beijing and Moscow Join in Visceral Resentment toward the United States and the ‘West’” Report. “A peaceful city, they just shoot at the infrastructure, at the inhabitants, they scare them”: in Mykolaiv, the bombings have become daily Decryptions. Giant game of hide and seek between the Russian oligarchs and the European authorities Chronicle. “We had to wait for the aggression unleashed by Vladimir Putin against Ukraine to realize the extent of the EU’s energy vulnerability”