Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for a four-day humanitarian pause in the fighting this weekend, when Orthodox Christians celebrate Easter, to allow civilians to escape and humanitarian aid to be delivered.
The United States, Canada and Britain said they would send Ukraine more artillery, while Norway said it had shipped Ukraine 100 Mistral air defense missiles. President Joe Biden is expected to announce a new military aid package about the same size as last week’s $800 million one in the coming days, sources told Reuters. The White House said new sanctions were being prepared and U.S. The United States and its allies have responded with sweeping sanctions on Russia and support for Ukraine. Kyiv and its Western allies reject that as a false pretext. 24 to demilitarize and “denazify” Ukraine. Russia says it launched what it calls a “special military operation” on Feb. Ukrainian commanders have vowed not to surrender and Ukraine’s general staff said early on Wednesday fighting was going on at the steel plant while Russian forces attempted an offensive near the northeastern city of Kharkiv.īritish military intelligence said fighting in the Donbas region was intensifying as Russian forces tried to break through Ukrainian lines and disrupt its reinforcements. Its capture would be a huge strategic prize, linking territory held by pro-Russian separatists in the east with the Crimea region that Moscow annexed in 2014.īut not a single Ukrainian soldier had laid down their weapons after an earlier ultimatum to surrender lapsed, Russia’s defense ministry said, as it renewed its deadline.
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Russia has been trying to take full control of Mariupol for weeks.
“The world watches the murder of children online and remains silent,” adviser Mykhailo Podolyak wrote on Twitter.
Russia was hitting the Azovstal steel plant, the main remaining stronghold in the southeastern port city of Mariupol, with bunker-buster bombs, a Ukrainian presidential adviser said late on Tuesday. The biggest attack on a European state since 1945 has led to nearly 5 million people fleeing abroad and reduced cities to rubble.
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