Russia-Ukraine conflict: latest news of the conflict today March 2

Russian troops remain in Ukraine and intend to continue advancing in order to achieve their objectives; follow here the latest news of the invasion of Ukraine.

Russia maintains its offensive in Ukraine , while the army of that country is resisting attacks on its territory and has hindered the advance of Vladimir Putin ‘s troops .

The United States and European countries have increased sanctions on Moscow over the invasion. The US president, Joe Biden , even called Putin a “Russian dictator” for the Russian incursion into Ukraine and assured that the world has “isolated” it.

The negotiations between both parties to the conflict will resume today, after a first meeting in which no agreements were reached.

Find out here the latest news , minute by minute, of what is happening in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine on March 2.


Ukraine seeks humanitarian corridor to bring medicines to hospitals

Ukraine is facing drug distribution problems in pharmacies and hospitals due to the Russian invasion and wants to establish a humanitarian corridor for them, Health Minister Oleh Lyashko said on Wednesday.

Lyashko also raised the issue of supplying medical oxygen to coronavirus patients, but added that there was sufficient stock at the moment

The Russian army said on Wednesday that it took control of the city of Kherson , in southern Ukraine, at the beginning of the seventh day of the invasion launched by Moscow against the neighboring country.

“Russian divisions of the armed forces took full control of the regional capital of Kherson,” Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said in remarks broadcast on television

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Moscow on Wednesday of wanting to “erase” his country and its history amid Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion launched last week.

At least four people were killed and nine wounded in Russian airstrikes on Wednesday morning targeting the headquarters of security services and a university in the country’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, Ukrainian aid workers said.

“At the moment ten people could be removed from the rubble. The provisional balance is four dead and nine wounded,” said this same source on social networks at a time when Kharkov is suffering from the offensive by Russian forces.

Spain will send military material to the Ukrainian army

Spain “will deliver offensive military material to the Ukrainian resistance,” the president of the Spanish government, the socialist Pedro Sánchez, announced this Wednesday in the Congress of Deputies.

“I also want to announce that Spain will deliver offensive military material to the Ukrainian resistance,” said Sánchez, who until now had maintained that Madrid would contribute to the defense of Ukraine, a victim of a Russian invasion, only through a European Union fund.