amy: we will speak to the historian paul ortiz and julia wright, the daughter of richard wright who was from elaine, arkansas. his uncle was lynched in 1916. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is formally ruling out direct peace talks with vladimir putin after the kremlin declared it had annexed four ukrainian territory seized by russia's military. earlier today, zelenskyy signed a decree stating talks with who never ukraine's fate would be "impossible" adding "we are ready for dialogue with russia but was another president of russia." this comes as ukraine's military continues to climb benefield victories. in the east, they have advanced for the russian held luhansk region after its troops recaptured the city of lyman saturday. meanwhile, ukrainian forces reportedly took territories among the river in the south on monday. in afghanistan, the death toll in last week's attack on an educational center in kabul has risen to 53, with more than 110 people injured. most o

paul dot is spreading on social media. the bombardment against ukrainian infrastructure started on monday, following the truck bomb attack on the curt straits bridge in crimea. 2 days prior ortiz eager to sit down on the latest updates. first. it's the 3rd consecutive day of russia conducting and basically carrying out at missile attacks on the territory of ukraine this morning. and overnight they continued. we do know that at least in a 3 regions of ukraine, blossom and massive explosions were reported. for instance, in this, in southern and central ukraine, in other regions right now, an air raid alert has been announced. so there is that. and again, a people are expecting more missiles strikes, more drones strikes as russia again, has been targeting, are the ukranian infrastructure, critical infrastructure for 3 consecutive days. now. now you, the crania and authorities, they have already announced that during the 1st 2 days of a missile strikes, russia managed to basically damage or destroy completely some 30 percent of all energy infrastructure, new cray. now it is not clear as to how much of an exaggeration that figure is and or maybe an understatement. so we'll have to