Escalating conflict in eastern Ukraine remains the focus, as Russian forces continue to encircle Mariupol.
A port city said to be of great strategic importance, Mariupol’s fate depends Azovstal . Iron and Steel Plantremains under the control of Ukrainian forces despite relentless Russian attacks.
Officials say hundreds of civilians are shelter in the basements of the factory, and a Mariupol police official told CNN that supplies of food and water were dwindling in the heavy shelling.
One lobby The Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine has agreed with Russia on the evacuation of women, children and the elderly from Mariupol, but Russian forces are believed to be try to advance towards a city that forms part of the route.
Here are the latest developments in the Russia-Ukraine conflict:
The siege of Mariupol continued: Despite the barrage of attacks for weeks as Russia tried to “close the siege” around Mariupol, the Ukrainians continued to defend the city. However, conditions could soon turn sour, with a Ukrainian military commander telling CNN from one of the remaining holding posts that they could be “just days or even hours.”
Steel plant “totally surrounded”: Ukrainian army and civilians still stuck in Mariupol’s Azovstal steel plant under intense Russian bombardment. According to CNN, Myhailo Vershynin, the chief of the Mariupol patrol, told CNN earlier this week that an estimated 1,000 civilians, including women, children and the elderly were sheltering inside the factory. The commander of Ukraine’s 36th Marine Brigade, Major General Serhii Volyna, told CNN by phone Tuesday night that the plant was “completely surrounded” and asked for international assistance in the preliminary investigation. dispersed hundreds of soldiers and civilians.
The evacuation corridor for Mariupol agreed: Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said on Wednesday that a corridor has been agreed with Russia in evacuating women, children and the elderly from Mariupol. She said the convoy had been set up to move from the besieged city to Manhush and then continue through the Russian-controlled city of Berdyansk, and then north to the Ukrainian-controlled city of Zaporizhzhia.
Russian forces attempt to enter the corridor city: Zaporizhzhia, part of the evacuation corridor, in the direction of a try to move forward by Russian forces, the city’s Regional Council said Wednesday. As fighting intensifies across the east of the country, the council considers that Russian troops are trying to advance “in the direction of” Zaporizhzhia” but suffer losses and focus their main efforts on maintaining the occupied borders. .”
European officials are accused of highlighting War Crimes: Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo said on Tuesday that Russia’s aggression in Ukraine was “comparable to the darkest pages in our European history” and added that “cannot be punished”. punishment for war crimes”. On Wednesday, the President of the European Council Charles Michel said that “history will not forget the war crimes” committed in Ukraine.
Russian billionaire broke out the war: Russian billionaire Oleg Tinkov has fanned Russia’s war in Ukraine, calling on the West to do more to “prevent this massacre” in an Instagram post on Tuesday. “I don’t see a single beneficiary of this crazy war,” wrote the founder of Tinkoff Bank. Tinkov is among 65 individuals and organizations punished of the United Kingdom for “supporting the illegal invasion of Russia.”
