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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 13, 2022, Winnipeg, Manitoba C M Y K PAGE A2 ● WINNIPEGFREEPRESS.COMA2 NEWS SUNDAY, MARCH 13, 2022 The Free Press receives support from the Local Journalism Initiative funded by the Government of Canada WINNIPEG FREE PRESS SUNDAY 1355 Mountain Avenue Winnipeg, Manitoba, R2X 3B6 PHOTO REPRINTS 204-697-7064 SWITCHBOARD 204-697-7000 ADVERTISING 204-697-7122 FP.Advertising@freepress.mb.ca EDITORIAL NEWSROOM 204-697-7301 HOW TO REACH US Winnipeg Free Press est 1872 / Winnipeg Tribune est 1890 VOL. 151 NO. 121 INSIDE Local news A3,6 Canada A3 Sunday Special A4 World A6,8 Entertainment A9 Miss Lonelyhearts A9 Sports B1 Comics B7 Diversions B8-9 Horoscope B9 Television B9 2022 Winnipeg Free Press, a division of FP Canadian Newspapers Limited Partnership. Published seven days a week at 1355 Mountain Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba R2X 3B6, PH: 204-697-7000 A member of the National Newsmedia Council The people in these photos are of interest to police and may be able to provide investigators with information about the offences. These images are released for identification purposes only. The people pictured may or may not be responsible for the crimes indicated. If you are able to identify anyone pictured, call Winnipeg Crime Stoppers at 204-786-TIPS (204-786-8477), text TIP170 and your mes- sage to CRIMES (274637) or send a secure tip online at winnipegcrimestoppers.org. CLICK ● WINNIPEG CRIME STOPPERS Incident: 1192 WHEN: Jan. 25, 2022 WHERE: Grace Hospital parking lot Someone stole a vehicle while the victim was inside the hospital picking up his wife, who was recovering from recent surgery. The vehicle was later recovered in the vicinity of the former Unicity shopping centre. Incident: 1193 WHEN: Feb. 5, 2022 WHERE: Main Street at Broadway Two men approached a person and one of the suspects produced a hand- gun and demanded the victim’s personal belongings. The victim ran across Main Street while the suspects fled in the opposite direction. “When I woke up in the morning, everything was covered in smoke, ev- erything was dark. We don’t know who is shooting and where,” resident Serhy Protsenko said as he walked through his neighborhood. Explosions sounded in the distance. “We don’t have any radio or information.” Some Irpin residents sheltered in a pitch-dark basement, unsure where they could go or how they would get food if they left. Others toted luggage over planks laid across a waterway where a bridge had been damaged. Zelenskyy encouraged his people to keep up their resistance, which many analysts said has prevented the rapid military victory the Kremlin likely expected. “The fact that the whole Ukrainian people resist these invaders has al- ready gone down in history, but we do not have the right to let up our defence, no matter how difficult it may be,” he said. Later Saturday, Zelenskyy report- ed that 1,300 Ukrainian soldiers had died since the Russian invasion began Feb. 24. The first major city to fall, earlier this month, was Kherson, a vital Black Sea port of 290,000 residents. Zelen- skyy said Saturday that Russians were using blackmail and bribery in an attempt to force local officials to form a “pseudo-republic” in the southern Kherson region, much like those in Donetsk and Luhansk, two eastern regions where pro-Russian separatists began fighting Ukrainian forces in 2014. One of the pretexts Russia used to invade was that it had to protect the separatist regions. Zelenskyy again deplored NATO’s refusal to declare a no-fly zone over Ukraine and said Ukraine has sought ways to procure air defence assets, though he didn’t elaborate. U.S. Pres- ident Joe Biden announced another US$200 million in aid to Ukraine, with an additional US$13 billion included in a bill that has passed the House and should pass the Senate within days. NATO has said that imposing a no-fly zone could lead to a wider war with Russia. The Ukrainian president also ac- cused Russia of detaining the mayor of Melitopol, a city 192 kilometres west of Mariupol. The Ukrainian leader called on Russian forces to heed calls from demonstrators in the occupied city for the mayor’s release. In multiple areas around Kyiv, artil- lery barrages sent residents scurrying for shelter as air raid sirens wailed. Britain’s Defence Ministry said Rus- sian forces that had been massed north of the capital had edged to within 25 ki- lometres of the city center and spread out, likely to support an attempted encirclement. A convoy of hundreds of people fleeing Peremoha, about 20 kilometres northeast of Kyiv, were forced to turn back under shelling by Russian forces that killed seven people, including a child, Ukraine’s defence ministry said Saturday. Moscow has said it would establish humanitarian corridors out of conflict zones, but Ukrainian officials have accused Russia of disrupting those paths and firing on civilians. Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said just nine of 14 agreed-upon corridors were open on Saturday, and that about 13,000 people had used them to evacuate around the country. Ukraine’s military and volunteer forces have been preparing for an all- out assault on the capital. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said Thursday that about 2 million people, half the metro- politan area’s inhabitants, had left and that “every street, every house… is being fortified.” Zelenskyy said Saturday that Russia would need to carpet-bomb Kyiv and kill its residents to take the city. “They will come here only if they kill us all,” he said. “If that is their goal, let them come.” French and German leaders spoke Saturday with Russian President Vlad- imir Putin in a failed attempt to reach a ceasefire. According to the Kremlin, Putin laid out terms for ending the war. For ending hostilities, Moscow has demanded that Ukraine drop its bid to join NATO and adopt a neutral status; acknowledge the Russian sovereignty over Crimea, which it annexed from Ukraine in 2014; recognize the inde- pendence of separatist regions in the country’s east; and agree to demilita- rize. In a 90-minute call with French Pres- ident Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Saturday, Putin spoke about “issues related to agreements under discussion to imple- ment the Russian demands” for ending the war, the Kremlin said without providing details. In Mariupol, the Ukrainian govern- ment said Saturday that the Sultan Su- leiman Mosque was hit, but an unveri- fied Instagram post by a man claiming to be the mosque association’s presi- dent said the building was spared when a bomb fell about 700 metres away. The Ukrainian Embassy in Turkey said 86 Turkish nationals, including 34 children, were among the people who had sought safety in the mosque, which was modelled on one of the most fa- mous and largest mosques in Istanbul. With the port’s electricity, gas and water supplies knocked out, aid workers and Ukrainian authorities described an unfolding humanitarian catastrophe. Aid group Doctors With- out Borders said Mariupol residents are dying from a lack of medication and are draining heating pipes for drinking water. Russian forces have hit at least two dozen hospitals and medical facilities, according to the World Health Organi- zation. The Russian invaders appear to have struggled far more than expected against determined Ukrainian fighters. Still, Russia’s stronger military threat- ens to grind down Ukrainian forces, despite an ongoing flow of weapons and other assistance from the West for Ukraine’s westward-looking, democrat- ically elected government. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov warned on Saturday that his country could attack foreign shipments of military equipment to Ukraine. He said sending equipment is “an action that makes those convoys legitimate targets.” Thousands of soldiers on both sides are believed to have been killed along with many civilians, including at least 79 Ukrainian children, its government says. At least 2.5 million people have fled the country, according to the Unit- ed Nations refugee agency. One is Elena Yurchuk, a nurse from the northern city of Chernihiv, which has been heavily shelled. She was in a Romanian train station Saturday with her teenage son, Nikita, unsure wheth- er their home was still standing. “We have nowhere to go back to,” said Yurchuk, 44, a widow who hopes to find work in Germany. “Nothing left.” — The Associated Press UKRAINE ● FROM A1 Plan for supplying extra oil to Europe expected in two weeks O TTAWA — Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson says it will be another week or two be- fore Canada will know with certainty how much extra oil it can produce and ship to help offset bans on the use of fos- sil fuels from Russia. But he says longer-term conversa- tions about Canada partnering with Europe on renewable energy are likely more realistic and more lucrative. Wilkinson is spending most of his time on the phone with G7 partners and energy industry executives hammering out how best to help Europe cut its reli- ance on Russia as a source of energy. He spent most of last week at an energy conference in Houston, had mul- tiple calls with U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and on Thursday, a two-hour call with G7 energy minis- ters. The Ukraine energy minister also joined part of that latter discussion. “In the context of the discussions, not just with the Americans, but the Euro- peans as well, we have essentially asked each other, those of us that are oil and gas producers, to look at whatever we can do,” he said in an interview. All of these talks are leading toward March 23, when the International Energy Agency is hosting a meeting of energy ministers in Paris. “My expectation is, by the time I go to Paris, we will have a pretty good view about what we may be able to do,” he said. “I mean, we have constraints around pipeline capacity, obviously, but the ability to fully utilize that, at this point in time to help to stabilize global energy markets, and to assist our friends and allies in Europe is definitely something that we are looking at.” But even as the world’s fourth largest oil producer, Canada’s role in solving Europe’s immediate fossil fuel needs is going to be limited. Canada exports about 3.6 million barrels of oil a day, but 97 per cent of it goes to the United States. Environment Minister Steven Guil- beault estimated this week Canada might be able to increase output by 200,000 barrels a day. Tristan Good- man, president of the Explorers and Producers Association of Canada, said we might be able to do twice that amount “if we’re lucky.” To replace all the oil it gets from Rus- sia, Europe needs three million barrels a day. Critics of the government argue the Liberals’ inability to get any new pipe- lines built have constrained Canada’s oil industry and now we can’t help when there is a need. Alberta Premier Jason Kenney said last week if U.S. President Joe Biden hadn’t killed the Keystone XL pipeline a year ago, it could have been available to replace Russian oil by the end of this year. The Liberals in Canada backed that project, but are skirting any forceful at- tempt to ask the Biden administration to revive it. Wilkinson said he raised it with Gran- holm in Texas but Biden campaigned on a promise to cancel it, and Wilkinson said he doesn’t see that changing. “I certainly represented that Canada continues to be of the view that that pro- ject should have proceeded,” he said. Canada also has no strategic oil re- serve like the United States to turn to in a pinch. Wilkinson, however, said this is not a time to turn away from investments in clean energy to get more oil out the door. In fact he said his discussions with Europe are largely about transitioning to clean energy like hydrogen faster. “We are in this transitional period where we need to address the immedi- ate energy security crisis that is arisen because of Russia’s brutal actions in Ukraine,” he said. “But I think every- body understands that the world is and must turn toward a low carbon future.” Europe, he said, is moving faster to adopt electric vehicles than most of the world and oil demand on the continent is going to decline as a result. “So I’m not sure that additional oil pipelines would have been, nor would be, a long term win,” he said. Canada and Europe are focusing heavily on what can be done to transi- tion away from oil and natural gas more quickly. Hydrogen, which both coun- tries want to adopt more heavily as a source of electricity, requires buildup of demand and production in Canada before exports can be contemplated, said Wilkinson. But knowing what Europe is going to want and how quickly they might want it are critical,” he said. “So those are exactly the conversa- tions I will be having in Paris,” he said. — The Canadian Press MIA RABSON EVGENIY MALOLETKA / THE ASSOCIATEDPRESS A Ukrainian serviceman guards his position in Mariupol, Ukraine, Saturday. Mariupol has been under siege for more than a week. EFREM LUKATSKY / THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A man walks by cars burnt in the Russian shelling as he flees towards Kyiv from his hometown of Irpin on Saturday. A_02_Mar-13-22_FP_01.indd 2 2022-03-12 11:34 PM ;