The number of Ukrainians fleeing Russia invasion expected to reach 1.5 million on On Sunday, as Ukraine pressed the West to toughen sanctions and deliver more weapons to repel Moscow attack now in son 11th day.
Ukrainian police said there was constant Russian shelling and air raids in northeastern Kharkiv region reporting many casualties, while the United Nations World Health Organization said there had been several attacks on Ukrainian health institutions.
Moscow and Kyiv exchanged blame over Saturdays failed to cease-fire for allow civilians to flee Mariupol and Volnovakha, two southern cities besieged by Russian forces. Ukraine said more the talks were set for Monday, but Russia was less definitive.
People who Could escape Ukraine has spread into neighboring Poland, Romania, Slovakia and elsewhere. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called on those in areas occupied by Russian troops to fight.
“We have to leave outside and drive this pain out of our cities,” he said. in an address on Saturday night.
British military intelligence said on Sunday that Russian forces were targeting populated areas in Ukraine, comparing the tactics to those that Russia used in Chechnya in 1999 and Syria in 2016. But he said Ukrainian resistance was slowing the advance.
“The magnitude and force of Ukrainian resistance continues to surprise Russia,” military says the intelligence.
Russia has repeatedly denied targeting civilian areas.
“Attacks on healthcare facilities or workers violate medical neutrality and constitute violations of international humanitarian law,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus wrote. on Twitter, saying the organization confirmed attacks on “several” health centers, causing multiple deaths and injuries.
He made no mention of Russia in son tweet.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, who launched what he calls a “special military transaction” on February 24, reiterated that he wanted a neutral, “demilitarized” and “denazified” Ukraine. He compared Western sanctions “to a statement of war”, adding: “Thank God, on didn’t come to that.”
Ukraine and the West countries decried Putin’s reasons as a baseless pretext for the invasion and imposed sweeping sanctions aimed at isolating Moscow and crippling son economy.
Penalties and weapons
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba after meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on the Ukraine-Poland border, said he expected new sanctions and weapons for Ukraine in the coming days.
The United States promised to send more weapons and said he could increase the penalties. President Joe Biden has asked for $10 billion in emergency funding to respond to the crisis.
washington works with Poland and Warsaw are considering supplying fighter jets to Ukraine, the White House has said.
Zelensky asked for help securing aircraft of European allies in a video call with American legislators. He again called for more lethal aid, a ban on Russian oil, no-fly zone and end of Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc. privileges. in Russia, United States media reported. Visa and Mastercard later announced they would suspend credit card operations in Russia, the latest in a dramatic series of business withdrawals over the invasion.
NATO, which Ukraine wants to join, resisted Zelensky’s calls to impose a no-fly zone over son country, saying it would aggravate the conflict outside Ukraine.
Seeking to mediate, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett met Putin in the Kremlin on Saturday and later spoke to Zelenskyy.
“We continue dialogue”, tweeted Zelenskyy after the call.
Russia has told the EU and NATO to stop “pumping of State-of-the-art weapons systems” in Kyiva said Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, according to RIA.
Russian media cited an unidentified source on on Sunday saying that Ukraine was close to building a plutonium-based “dirty bomb”, although the source did not cite any evidence.
“Severe Impact”
Shortly before the invasionPutin had said that Ukraine was using Soviet know-how to create its own nuclear weapons, and that this amounts to preparing for a attack on Russia.
Ukraine government said he didn’t have plans join the nuclear clubafter donating up its nuclear weapons in 1994 following the breakup of Soviet Union.
The Monetary Fund international warned that the conflict would have a “serious impact” on the global economydriving up energy and grain prices. He said he would weigh Kyivla asks for $1.4 billion in emergency funding starting this week.
Ukraine military noted more more than 11,000 Russian soldiers have been killed so far and 88 Russian planes have been shot down down. Reuters could not corroborate the claim.
In Mariupol, surrounded by Russian forces and bombarded for days, the situation was grim, with no power or water.
“We can’t pick up all the bodies on the street“, Deputy Mayor Sergei Orlov told CNN, saying it was impossible to count the civilian deaths there.
Medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said it was rushing more emergency supplies to Ukraine as hospitals faced shortages.
More than 350 civilians were killed, according to the UN office, with hundreds more hurt.
Heavy shelling was heard in the context as residents of Volnovakha tried to flee.
“To help us if you can, all of us want for livewe have children, husbands, we are mothers and fathers, we are also people,” noted one local, Larissa. ” Where should I go ? »
The mayor of west city of Lviv said more more than 65,000 refugees passed through its station on Friday alone.
The United Nations High Commissioner for The refugees estimated the number of refugees could reach 4 millions by July.
The number of Ukrainians fleeing Russia invasion expected to reach 1.5 million on On Sunday, as Ukraine pressed the West to toughen sanctions and deliver more weapons to repel Moscow attack now in son 11th day.
Ukrainian police said there was constant Russian shelling and air raids in northeastern Kharkiv region reporting many casualties, while the United Nations World Health Organization said there had been several attacks on Ukrainian health institutions.
Moscow and Kyiv exchanged blame over Saturdays failed to cease-fire for allow civilians to flee Mariupol and Volnovakha, two southern cities besieged by Russian forces. Ukraine said more the talks were set for Monday, but Russia was less definitive.
People who Could escape Ukraine has spread into neighboring Poland, Romania, Slovakia and elsewhere. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called on those in areas occupied by Russian troops to fight.
“We have to leave outside and drive this pain out of our cities,” he said. in an address on Saturday night.
British military intelligence said on Sunday that Russian forces were targeting populated areas in Ukraine, comparing the tactics to those that Russia used in Chechnya in 1999 and Syria in 2016. But he said Ukrainian resistance was slowing the advance.
“The magnitude and force of Ukrainian resistance continues to surprise Russia,” military says the intelligence.
Russia has repeatedly denied targeting civilian areas.
“Attacks on healthcare facilities or workers violate medical neutrality and constitute violations of international humanitarian law,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus wrote. on Twitter, saying the organization confirmed attacks on “several” health centers, causing multiple deaths and injuries.
He made no mention of Russia in son tweet.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, who launched what he calls a “special military transaction” on February 24, reiterated that he wanted a neutral, “demilitarized” and “denazified” Ukraine. He compared Western sanctions “to a statement of war”, adding: “Thank God, on didn’t come to that.”
Ukraine and the West countries decried Putin’s reasons as a baseless pretext for the invasion and imposed sweeping sanctions aimed at isolating Moscow and crippling son economy.
Penalties and weapons
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba after meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on the Ukraine-Poland border, said he expected new sanctions and weapons for Ukraine in the coming days.
The United States promised to send more weapons and said he could increase the penalties. President Joe Biden has asked for $10 billion in emergency funding to respond to the crisis.
washington works with Poland and Warsaw are considering supplying fighter jets to Ukraine, the White House has said.
Zelensky asked for help securing aircraft of European allies in a video call with American legislators. He again called for more lethal aid, a ban on Russian oil, no-fly zone and end of Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc. privileges. in Russia, United States media reported. Visa and Mastercard later announced they would suspend credit card operations in Russia, the latest in a dramatic series of business withdrawals over the invasion.
NATO, which Ukraine wants to join, resisted Zelensky’s calls to impose a no-fly zone over son country, saying it would aggravate the conflict outside Ukraine.
Seeking to mediate, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett met Putin in the Kremlin on Saturday and later spoke to Zelenskyy.
“We continue dialogue”, tweeted Zelenskyy after the call.
Russia has told the EU and NATO to stop “pumping of State-of-the-art weapons systems” in Kyiva said Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, according to RIA.
Russian media cited an unidentified source on on Sunday saying that Ukraine was close to building a plutonium-based “dirty bomb”, although the source did not cite any evidence.
“Severe Impact”
Shortly before the invasionPutin had said that Ukraine was using Soviet know-how to create its own nuclear weapons, and that this amounts to preparing for a attack on Russia.
Ukraine government said he didn’t have plans join the nuclear clubafter donating up its nuclear weapons in 1994 following the breakup of Soviet Union.
The Monetary Fund international warned that the conflict would have a “serious impact” on the global economydriving up energy and grain prices. He said he would weigh Kyivla asks for $1.4 billion in emergency funding starting this week.
Ukraine military noted more more than 11,000 Russian soldiers have been killed so far and 88 Russian planes have been shot down down. Reuters could not corroborate the claim.
In Mariupol, surrounded by Russian forces and bombarded for days, the situation was grim, with no power or water.
“We can’t pick up all the bodies on the street“, Deputy Mayor Sergei Orlov told CNN, saying it was impossible to count the civilian deaths there.
Medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said it was rushing more emergency supplies to Ukraine as hospitals faced shortages.
More than 350 civilians were killed, according to the UN office, with hundreds more hurt.
Heavy shelling was heard in the context as residents of Volnovakha tried to flee.
“To help us if you can, all of us want for livewe have children, husbands, we are mothers and fathers, we are also people,” noted one local, Larissa. ” Where should I go ? »
The mayor of west city of Lviv said more more than 65,000 refugees passed through its station on Friday alone.
The United Nations High Commissioner for The refugees estimated the number of refugees could reach 4 millions by July.