Ukraina mengatakan akan bertemu Rusia saat Putin menempatkan pertahanan nuklir dalam keadaan siaga.-Ukraine says will meet Russia as Putin puts nuclear defences on alert.
Feb27, 2022 - 11:59 AM.
Ukraina mengatakan pada hari Minggu bahwa mereka telah menyetujui untuk melakukan pembicaraan dengan Rusia setelah empat hari konflik, ketika Presiden Rusia Vladimir Putin memerintahkan kepala pertahanannya untuk menempatkan "pasukan pencegahan" nuklir dalam siaga.
Konflik telah menewaskan puluhan warga sipil, memaksa ratusan ribu orang melarikan diri dan mengubah Moskow menjadi paria global.
Kantor Presiden Volodymyr Zelensky mengatakan delegasi Ukraina akan bertemu dengan rusia di perbatasan dengan Belarus, yang telah memungkinkan pasukan Rusia untuk menyerang Ukraina.
Pertemuan itu akan berlangsung di dekat Chernobyl - lokasi bencana nuklir terburuk di dunia.
"Para politisi sepakat bahwa delegasi Ukraina akan bertemu dengan rusia tanpa prasyarat," kata kantor Zelensky dalam sebuah pernyataan setelah presiden berbicara dengan mitranya dari Belarus Alexander Lukashenko.
Pasukan Ukraina sebelumnya mengatakan mereka telah berperang melawan serangan Rusia ke kota terbesar kedua Ukraina, Kharkiv, pada hari keempat invasi Rusia.
Ketika negara-negara Barat berbaris untuk mengirim senjata ke Ukraina dan menjatuhkan sanksi yang semakin ketat, Putin memerintahkan para kepala pertahanannya untuk menempatkan "pasukan pencegahan" nuklir negara itu dalam siaga tinggi.
Putin menuduh negara-negara Barat mengambil langkah"tidak ramah" terhadap negaranya.
Ukraina telah melaporkan 198 kematian warga sipil, termasuk tiga anak-anak, sejak invasi dimulai.
PBB telah menempatkan korban sipil di 64.
"Malam terakhir di Ukraina sangat brutal," kata Zelensky.
"Mereka melawan semua orang. Mereka berjuang melawan semua makhluk hidup - melawan taman kanak-kanak, melawan bangunan tempat tinggal dan bahkan melawan ambulans."
Larangan wilayah udara, janji senjata
Beberapa negara Eropa sementara itu melarang maskapai Rusia dari wilayah udara mereka pada hari Minggu dan banyak yang menjanjikan senjata untuk Ukraina tetapi menjelaskan bahwa mereka tidak akan campur tangan secara militer.
Dalam pesan tradisional hari Minggu kepada umat beriman di Lapangan Santo Petrus, Paus Fransiskus menyerukan agar senjata "terdiam" di negara itu dan untuk pembukaan koridor kemanusiaan.
Sehari setelah Berlin mengatakan akan mengirim senjata anti-tank dan rudal Stinger ke Ukraina, Kanselir Jerman Olaf Scholz mengatakan dunia berada dalam "era baru" dan memperingatkan sanksi lebih lanjut.
'Akan membuatmu gila'
Tembakan senapan mesin dan ledakan terdengar di Kharkiv sebelumnya pada hari Minggu dan AFP kemudian melihat puing-puing kendaraan lapis baja Rusia membara dan beberapa lainnya ditinggalkan.
"Kharkiv sepenuhnya berada di bawah kendali kami," kata kepala pemerintahan regional, Oleg Sinegubov, di Telegram, menambahkan bahwa tentara mengusir pasukan Rusia selama operasi "pembersihan".
Moskow juga mengklaim "sepenuhnya" mengepung kota Kherson di Ukraina selatan dan kota Berdyansk di tenggara.
Keduanya terletak di dekat semenanjung Krimea, yang dianeksasi Rusia dari Ukraina pada tahun 2014.
Para pejabat Ukraina juga mengatakan bahwa pipa gas di Kharkiv timur dan depot minyak dekat ibukota Kyiv menjadi sasaran pasukan Rusia semalam.
Ukraina mengatakan pihaknya memerangi pasukan Rusia di beberapa titik lain dan bahwa 4.300 tentara Rusia telah tewas.
Tak satu pun dari klaim tersebut dapat diverifikasi secara independen.
Di Kyiv, banyak penduduk menghabiskan satu malam lagi di tempat penampungan atau ruang bawah tanah ketika pasukan Ukraina mengatakan mereka melawan "kelompok sabotase" Rusia, tetapi hari Minggu relatif tenang dibandingkan dengan hari-hari sebelumnya.
Kota ini berada di bawah jam malam selimut sampai Senin pagi meskipun beberapa penduduk memberanikan diri keluar.
Keluar untuk berjalan-jalan di taman, Flora Stepanova yang berusia 41 tahun mengatakan tinggal di rumah menonton berita sepanjang waktu "akan membuat Anda gila".
Pada hari Sabtu, Rusia memerintahkan pasukannya untuk maju lebih jauh ke Ukraina "dari segala arah" tetapi tentara telah menghadapi perlawanan sengit dari pasukan Ukraina.
Sumber-sumber Barat mengatakan intensitas perlawanan tampaknya telah mengejutkan Moskow.
Tentara Ukraina mengatakan pihaknya menahan garis terhadap serangan terhadap Kyiv, tetapi menggunakan jam malam untuk melawan "kelompok sabotase" Rusia yang telah menyusup ke kota.
Pada hari Minggu, staf umum Ukraina mendesak setiap orang asing untuk datang ke Ukraina "dan berperang berdampingan dengan Ukraina melawan penjahat perang Rusia".
'Aku gemetar'
Badan pengungsi PBB (UNHCR) mengatakan lebih dari 368.000 orang telah melarikan diri ke negara-negara tetangga, sementara lebih dari 160.000 diperkirakan mengungsi di Ukraina.
Paus Fransiskus menyerukan pembukaan koridor kemanusiaan yang "mendesak" bagi Ukraina untuk memungkinkan lebih banyak lagi untuk pergi.
AFP melihat antrian mobil stasioner membentang puluhan kilometer di jalan menuju penyeberangan perbatasan Ukraina dengan Polandia.
"Serangan ada di mana-mana," kata Diana, 37, yang melarikan diri dari ibukota Ukraina. "Ibuku masih di Kyiv."
Polandia, Jerman dan Austria mengatakan warga Ukraina dapat naik secara gratis di kereta mereka sampai pemberitahuan lebih lanjut.
Di Rumania, yang juga bertetangga dengan Ukraina, Olga, 36, termasuk di antara ratusan orang yang menyeberangi sungai Danube bersama ketiga anaknya yang masih kecil ke tempat yang aman.
"Suami saya datang bersama kami sejauh perbatasan, sebelum kembali ke Kyiv untuk berperang," katanya.
Sanksi bank yang melumpuhkan
Menanggapi invasi tersebut, Barat mengatakan akan menghapus beberapa bank Rusia dari sistem pesan bank SWIFT, dan membekukan aset bank sentral – memukul beberapa perdagangan global Rusia.
Seorang pejabat senior AS mengatakan langkah-langkah itu akan mengubah Rusia menjadi "paria", menambahkan bahwa satuan tugas akan memburu aset oligarki Rusia.
Konflik telah mengguncang terutama negara-negara satelit Bekas Soviet di Eropa Timur yang takut keuntungan demokratis pasca Perang Dingin mereka dapat terancam oleh agresi Rusia.
Aliansi NATO mengatakan akan, untuk pertama kalinya, mengerahkan bagian dari kekuatan respons cepatnya ke wilayah tersebut untuk meyakinkan sekutu timur.
Ada juga sanksi dan boikot di bidang budaya dan olahraga serta perjalanan internasional, dengan beberapa negara melarang maskapai Rusia dari wilayah udara mereka.
Dalam hukuman terbaru untuk Putin, seorang judoka yang tajam, Federasi Judo Internasional mengatakan dia telah diskors sebagai presiden kehormatannya.
Kremlin sejauh ini telah menepis sanksi, termasuk yang menargetkan Putin secara pribadi, sebagai tanda impotensi Barat.
Putin mengatakan tindakan Rusia dibenarkan karena membela separatis yang didukung Moskow di Ukraina timur.
Dalam sebuah pidato kepada umat paroki pada hari Minggu, Patriark Ortodoks Rusia Kirill menyuarakan dukungannya, menyebut lawan-lawan Moskow "kekuatan jahat".
Para pemberontak telah memerangi pasukan pemerintah Ukraina selama delapan tahun dalam konflik yang telah menewaskan lebih dari 14.000 orang.
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Ukraine said Sunday it had agreed to talks with Russia after four days of conflict, as Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his defence chiefs to put nuclear "deterrence forces" on alert.
The conflict has already killed dozens of civilians, forced hundreds of thousands to flee and turned Moscow into a global pariah.
President Volodymyr Zelensky's office said a Ukrainian delegation would meet the Russian one at the border with Belarus, which has allowed Russian troops passage to attack Ukraine.
The meeting is set to take place near Chernobyl -- the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster.
"The politicians agreed that the Ukrainian delegation would meet the Russian one without preconditions," Zelensky's office said in a statement after the president spoke to his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko.
Ukrainian forces earlier said they had fought off a Russian incursion into Ukraine's second biggest city, Kharkiv, on day four of Russia's invasion.
As Western countries lined up to send arms into Ukraine and impose ever more stringent sanctions, Putin ordered his defence chiefs to put the country's nuclear "deterrence forces" on high alert.
Putin accused Western countries of taking "unfriendly" steps against his country.
Ukraine has reported 198 civilian deaths, including three children, since the invasion began.
The UN has put the civilian toll at 64.
"The past night in Ukraine was brutal," Zelensky said.
"They fight against everyone. They fight against all living things -- against kindergartens, against residential buildings and even against ambulances."
Airspace bans, arms pledges
Several European countries meanwhile banned Russian airlines from their airspace on Sunday and many pledged arms for Ukraine but made it clear that they will not intervene militarily.
In his traditional Sunday message to the faithful in St Peter's Square, Pope Francis called for weapons to "fall silent" in the country and for the opening of humanitarian corridors.
'Will drive you crazy'
Machine gun fire and explosions were heard in Kharkiv earlier on Sunday and AFP later saw the wreckage of a Russian armoured vehicle smouldering and several others abandoned.
"Kharkiv is fully under our control," the head of the regional administration, Oleg Sinegubov, said on Telegram, adding that the army was expelling Russian forces during a "clean-up" operation.
Moscow also claimed it was "entirely" besieging the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson and the city of Berdyansk in the southeast.
Both are located close the Crimea peninsula, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014.
krainian officials also said that a gas pipeline in eastern Kharkiv and an oil depot near the capital Kyiv were targeted by Russian forces overnight.
Ukraine said it was fighting off Russian forces in several other points and that 4,300 Russian troops had been killed.
None of the claims could be independently verified.
In Kyiv, many residents spent another night in shelters or cellars as Ukrainian forces said they were fighting off Russian "sabotage groups", but Sunday was relatively calm compared to previous days.
The city is under a blanket curfew until Monday morning though some residents ventured out regardless.
Out for a walk in a park, 41-year-old Flora Stepanova said staying at home watching the news all the time "will drive you crazy".
On Saturday, Russia ordered its forces to advance further into Ukraine "from all directions" but soldiers have encountered fierce resistance from Ukrainian troops
Western sources said the intensity of the resistance seems to have surprised Moscow.
Ukraine's army said it held the line against an assault on Kyiv, but was using the curfew to fight Russian "sabotage groups" that had infiltrated the city.
On Sunday, Ukraine's general staff urged any foreigners to come to Ukraine "and fight side-by-side with Ukrainians against Russian war criminals".
'I was trembling'
The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) says more than 368,000 people have fled to neighbouring countries, while more than 160,000 are estimated to be displaced within Ukraine.
Pope Francis called for the "urgent" opening of humanitarian corridors for Ukraine to allow even more to leave.
AFP saw stationary queues of cars stretching for dozens of kilometres on the roads to Ukraine's border crossings with Poland.
"Attacks were everywhere," said Diana, 37, who fled the Ukrainian capital. "My mother is still in Kyiv."
Poland, Germany and Austria have said Ukrainians can ride for free on their trains until further notice.
In Romania, which also neighbours Ukraine, Olga, 36, was among hundreds to have crossed the Danube river with her three young children to safety.
"My husband came with us as far as the border, before returning to Kyiv to fight," she said.
Crippling bank sanctions
Responding to the invasion, the West said it would remove some Russian banks from the SWIFT bank messaging system, and froze central bank assets -- hitting some of Russia's global trade.
A senior US official said the measures would turn Russia into a "pariah", adding that a task force would hunt down Russian oligarchs' assets.
The conflict has rattled particularly former Soviet satellite countries in Eastern Europe who fear their post Cold War democratic gains could be threatened by Russian aggression.
The NATO alliance has said it will, for the first time, deploy part of its rapid response force to the region to reassure eastern allies.
There have also been sanctions and boycotts in the cultural and sporting spheres as well as international travel, with several countries banning Russian airlines from their airspace.
In the latest punishment for Putin, a keen judoka, the International Judo Federation said he has been suspended as its honorary president.
The Kremlin has so far brushed off sanctions, including those targeting Putin personally, as a sign of Western impotence.
Putin has said Russia's actions are justified because it is defending Moscow-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine.
In an address to parishioners on Sunday, Russia's Orthodox Patriarch Kirill voiced his support, calling Moscow's opponents "evil forces".
The rebels have been fighting Ukrainian government forces for eight years in a conflict that has killed more than 14,000 people.
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