Moscow and Kyiv made little progress towards the appeasement of the conflict on On Monday, as Russian forces pressed on with their sieges and bombardments of Ukrainian cities.
Amid intensified shelling, a Russian airstrike hit a bread factory in northern ukraine on Monday, killing at least 13 civilians, Ukrainian officials said.
A third round of the talks between the two parties have ended with a Ukrainian top official saying there had been minor, unspecified cases progress towards the establishment of safe corridors that allow civilians to escape the fights. Russia’s chief negotiator said he expected these corridors start operating Tuesday.
But that remained to be seen, given the failure of previous attempts to lead civilians to safety in the midst of earth’s greatest war in Europe since World War II.
Strike on the bread factory in Makriv, just Where is of the capital Kyiv, took place like the number of refugees fleeing the borders cause of the Russian assault exceeded 1.7 million, according to United Nations figures.
Well in the second week of the invasion, with Russian troops make significant progress in southern Ukraine but stalled in some other regions, a US top official said multiple countries were discussing the advisability of supplying the planes of combat that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky pleaded for.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s forces continued to strike cities with rockets and heavy fighting raged in places on the 11th day of the war.
In one of the most desperate towns, the southern port encircled of Mariupol, about 200,000 people – almost half the population of 430,000 – remained trapped without food or water, hoping to flee, and Red Cross officials waited to hear when a corridor would be established.
“They bombard life out of everything that is movingsaid Zelensky.
Local emergency services said the bodies of at least 13 civilians were recovered from the rubble after the bakery attack. Five people were saved of the 30 believed to be there at the time. Russia denies targeting civilians.
Zelensky speaking on a zoom call with a Jew group in in the United States, said: “The bakery has been eliminated. And it happens in different cities.”
In the East city of Kharkiv, according to the police, 10 more people had been killed over the past day, taking the total death of the Russian bombardment to 143 since the start of the invasion. It was not possible to check the toll.
Small progress
After the third attempt to mitigate the bloodshed during the talks in Belarus, Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Zelenskyy, said that although small progress on okay logistics for evacuation of civilians had been madeThings remained largely unchanged.
Podolyak said “there were small positive changes regarding logistics of humanitarian corridors” for allow civilians to flee besieged Ukrainian cities. He said consultations would continue on means of negotiating an end to hostilities.
“As of now there is no results which considerably improve the situation,” he said. in a video statement, while Russian negotiator Vladimir Medinsky told reporters the talks were “not easy”.
“We hope that from tomorrow these corridors will finally be work”, Medinsky said. He noted that no progress has been made on a political settlement, but expressed the hope that next round could be more productive.
A fourth round of talks will take place very soonsaid Russian negotiator Leonid Slutsky on Russian state television.
“Completely immoral”
Russia had offered the Ukrainians escape routes to Russia and Belarus, son close ally, early on Monday after stopping the weekend evacuation-fire attempts failed.
A spokesperson for Zelenskyy said the Russian proposal was “completely immoral”.
In the capital, Kyiv, soldiers and volunteers have built hundreds of points control to protect city of nearly 4 millionsoften using sandbags, stacked tires and spiked cables. Some barricades seemed important, with heavy concrete slabs and stacked sandbags more more than two floors, while others appeared more randomly, with hundreds of pounds used to weigh down Battery of tires.
“Every house, every street, every checkpoint, we go fight to the death if necessary,” Mayor Vitali Klitschko said.
In Kharkiv, Ukraine second-most grand city, with 1.4 million peoplede heavy bombings fell on apartment buildings.
“I think it hit the fourth floor under us“, said Dmitry Sedorenko since son Kharkiv hospital bed. “Immediately everything started to burn and crumble.” When the floor collapsed under him, he crawled out through the third story, past the bodies of some of his neighbors.
Klitschko reported that fierce battles continued in the Kyiv regionespecially around Bucha, Hostomel, Vorzel and Irpin.
In the Irpin areawhich has been cut off electricity, water and heat for three days, witnesses saw at least three tanks and said Russian soldiers seized houses and cars.
A few miles away, in the small town of Horenka, where the shelling reduced one area to ashes and shards of glass, rescuers and locals rummaged through the ruins while chickens pecked around them.
“What do they do?” rescuer Vasyl Oksak asked of the Russian attackers. “There were two small children and two old people people live here. Come in and see what they have done.
To the south, the Russian forces also continued their offensive in Mykolaiv, opening fire on the black sea shipbuilding center of a half-million peopleaccording to Ukraine military. Rescuers said they were putting out fires caused by rocket attacks in Residential areas.
Russia calls the campaign he launched on February 24 a “special military operation” to disarm Ukraine and eliminate the leaders it describes as neo-Nazis.
Ukraine and its Western allies call it’s a transparent pretext for a invasion conquer a nation of 44 millions people.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Reuters that Moscow would halt operations if Ukraine stopped fighting, changed its constitution to declare neutrality and recognized Russia’s annexation. of Crimea and independence of regions held by Russian-backed separatists.
Oil ban under consideration
Western nations imposed heavy sanctions on Moscow to isolate it from global trade and are now considering banning imports of Russian oil. Oil prices have risen to their highest levels since 2008 with a view to of less supply from Russia, the world’s most grand exporter of of oil and gas.
international companies and sports bodies have suspended relations, and broader economic disruption is probable, car Russia and Ukraine are both among the world’s main exporters of food and industrial metals.
Prices of nickel, used to make stainless steel and batteries for electric vehicles jumped about 60% on on Monday and have now nearly doubled since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24.
the general Staff of Ukraine’s armed forces said Russian forces were “beginning to accumulate resources for the storming of Kyiv», after days of slow progress in their main advance south from Belarus.
In Mariupol, Deputy Mayor Sergei Orlov said that there was a air overnight raids.
Orlov said CNN authorities were ready to evacuate 6,000 people on Saturday but the Russians had bombed 29 big municipal buses that were to transport them. Moscow accused the Ukrainians of block planned drains.
US Ambassador to the OSCE Michael Carpenter told a meeting of its 57 states participants that Russia had bombed the agreed evacuation routes out of Volnovakha and Mariupol just as civilians fled.
“It’s pure evil,” he said.
Ukraine said on On Monday his forces had regained control of the city of Chuhuiv in the northeast after heavy fighting and of the strategic airport of Mykolaiv in the south, which, according to the regional governor, was under tank fire. None of these claims could be immediately verified.
In a humanitarian update the UN describes one psychiatric hospital 60 kilometers (40 miles) from Kyiv functioning out of water and medicine with 670 people trapped inside, including bedridden patients with severe needs.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that at least nine people had been confirmed killed in 16 attacks on health facilities from start of the war.
Take up pace
A senior we defense official said Putin has now deployed to Ukraine almost 100% of the more over 150,000 forces he had pre-organized outside the country before invasion.
A analyst with Britain’s Royal United Services Institute, Ed Arnold, said Russia need trying to consolidate the gains he has already made and pause mobilize more forces unless the pace of son chosen assault up.
Moscow has recognized nearly 500 dead among its Western soldiersbut countries say it true the number is many higher and Ukraine says it’s several thousand.
Death toll cannot be verified, but footage was filmed across Ukraine shows burned-out debris of Russian tanks and armor, and parts of Ukrainian cities reduced to the rubble by Russian strikes.
Moscow and Kyiv made little progress towards the appeasement of the conflict on On Monday, as Russian forces pressed on with their sieges and bombardments of Ukrainian cities.
Amid intensified shelling, a Russian airstrike hit a bread factory in northern ukraine on Monday, killing at least 13 civilians, Ukrainian officials said.
A third round of the talks between the two parties have ended with a Ukrainian top official saying there had been minor, unspecified cases progress towards the establishment of safe corridors that allow civilians to escape the fights. Russia’s chief negotiator said he expected these corridors start operating Tuesday.
But that remained to be seen, given the failure of previous attempts to lead civilians to safety in the midst of earth’s greatest war in Europe since World War II.
Strike on the bread factory in Makriv, just Where is of the capital Kyiv, took place like the number of refugees fleeing the borders cause of the Russian assault exceeded 1.7 million, according to United Nations figures.
Well in the second week of the invasion, with Russian troops make significant progress in southern Ukraine but stalled in some other regions, a US top official said multiple countries were discussing the advisability of supplying the planes of combat that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky pleaded for.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s forces continued to strike cities with rockets and heavy fighting raged in places on the 11th day of the war.
In one of the most desperate towns, the southern port encircled of Mariupol, about 200,000 people – almost half the population of 430,000 – remained trapped without food or water, hoping to flee, and Red Cross officials waited to hear when a corridor would be established.
“They bombard life out of everything that is movingsaid Zelensky.
Local emergency services said the bodies of at least 13 civilians were recovered from the rubble after the bakery attack. Five people were saved of the 30 believed to be there at the time. Russia denies targeting civilians.
Zelensky speaking on a zoom call with a Jew group in in the United States, said: “The bakery has been eliminated. And it happens in different cities.”
In the East city of Kharkiv, according to the police, 10 more people had been killed over the past day, taking the total death of the Russian bombardment to 143 since the start of the invasion. It was not possible to check the toll.
Small progress
After the third attempt to mitigate the bloodshed during the talks in Belarus, Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Zelenskyy, said that although small progress on okay logistics for evacuation of civilians had been madeThings remained largely unchanged.
Podolyak said “there were small positive changes regarding logistics of humanitarian corridors” for allow civilians to flee besieged Ukrainian cities. He said consultations would continue on means of negotiating an end to hostilities.
“As of now there is no results which considerably improve the situation,” he said. in a video statement, while Russian negotiator Vladimir Medinsky told reporters the talks were “not easy”.
“We hope that from tomorrow these corridors will finally be work”, Medinsky said. He noted that no progress has been made on a political settlement, but expressed the hope that next round could be more productive.
A fourth round of talks will take place very soonsaid Russian negotiator Leonid Slutsky on Russian state television.
“Completely immoral”
Russia had offered the Ukrainians escape routes to Russia and Belarus, son close ally, early on Monday after stopping the weekend evacuation-fire attempts failed.
A spokesperson for Zelenskyy said the Russian proposal was “completely immoral”.
In the capital, Kyiv, soldiers and volunteers have built hundreds of points control to protect city of nearly 4 millionsoften using sandbags, stacked tires and spiked cables. Some barricades seemed important, with heavy concrete slabs and stacked sandbags more more than two floors, while others appeared more randomly, with hundreds of pounds used to weigh down Battery of tires.
“Every house, every street, every checkpoint, we go fight to the death if necessary,” Mayor Vitali Klitschko said.
In Kharkiv, Ukraine second-most grand city, with 1.4 million peoplede heavy bombings fell on apartment buildings.
“I think it hit the fourth floor under us“, said Dmitry Sedorenko since son Kharkiv hospital bed. “Immediately everything started to burn and crumble.” When the floor collapsed under him, he crawled out through the third story, past the bodies of some of his neighbors.
Klitschko reported that fierce battles continued in the Kyiv regionespecially around Bucha, Hostomel, Vorzel and Irpin.
In the Irpin areawhich has been cut off electricity, water and heat for three days, witnesses saw at least three tanks and said Russian soldiers seized houses and cars.
A few miles away, in the small town of Horenka, where the shelling reduced one area to ashes and shards of glass, rescuers and locals rummaged through the ruins while chickens pecked around them.
“What do they do?” rescuer Vasyl Oksak asked of the Russian attackers. “There were two small children and two old people people live here. Come in and see what they have done.
To the south, the Russian forces also continued their offensive in Mykolaiv, opening fire on the black sea shipbuilding center of a half-million peopleaccording to Ukraine military. Rescuers said they were putting out fires caused by rocket attacks in Residential areas.
Russia calls the campaign he launched on February 24 a “special military operation” to disarm Ukraine and eliminate the leaders it describes as neo-Nazis.
Ukraine and its Western allies call it’s a transparent pretext for a invasion conquer a nation of 44 millions people.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Reuters that Moscow would halt operations if Ukraine stopped fighting, changed its constitution to declare neutrality and recognized Russia’s annexation. of Crimea and independence of regions held by Russian-backed separatists.
Oil ban under consideration
Western nations imposed heavy sanctions on Moscow to isolate it from global trade and are now considering banning imports of Russian oil. Oil prices have risen to their highest levels since 2008 with a view to of less supply from Russia, the world’s most grand exporter of of oil and gas.
international companies and sports bodies have suspended relations, and broader economic disruption is probable, car Russia and Ukraine are both among the world’s main exporters of food and industrial metals.
Prices of nickel, used to make stainless steel and batteries for electric vehicles jumped about 60% on on Monday and have now nearly doubled since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24.
the general Staff of Ukraine’s armed forces said Russian forces were “beginning to accumulate resources for the storming of Kyiv», after days of slow progress in their main advance south from Belarus.
In Mariupol, Deputy Mayor Sergei Orlov said that there was a air overnight raids.
Orlov said CNN authorities were ready to evacuate 6,000 people on Saturday but the Russians had bombed 29 big municipal buses that were to transport them. Moscow accused the Ukrainians of block planned drains.
US Ambassador to the OSCE Michael Carpenter told a meeting of its 57 states participants that Russia had bombed the agreed evacuation routes out of Volnovakha and Mariupol just as civilians fled.
“It’s pure evil,” he said.
Ukraine said on On Monday his forces had regained control of the city of Chuhuiv in the northeast after heavy fighting and of the strategic airport of Mykolaiv in the south, which, according to the regional governor, was under tank fire. None of these claims could be immediately verified.
In a humanitarian update the UN describes one psychiatric hospital 60 kilometers (40 miles) from Kyiv functioning out of water and medicine with 670 people trapped inside, including bedridden patients with severe needs.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that at least nine people had been confirmed killed in 16 attacks on health facilities from start of the war.
Take up pace
A senior we defense official said Putin has now deployed to Ukraine almost 100% of the more over 150,000 forces he had pre-organized outside the country before invasion.
A analyst with Britain’s Royal United Services Institute, Ed Arnold, said Russia need trying to consolidate the gains he has already made and pause mobilize more forces unless the pace of son chosen assault up.
Moscow has recognized nearly 500 dead among its Western soldiersbut countries say it true the number is many higher and Ukraine says it’s several thousand.
Death toll cannot be verified, but footage was filmed across Ukraine shows burned-out debris of Russian tanks and armor, and parts of Ukrainian cities reduced to the rubble by Russian strikes.