Ukraine hopes to open nine corridors on Tuesday to evacuate civilians trapped by Russian forces, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said, seeking to deliver humanitarian supplies to the beleaguered port of Mariupol.
Hundreds of thousands of residents of Mariupol, constantly bombarded, took refuge in basements and building ruins without water or power for more only a week. Moscow on Monday allowed the first convoy to escape.
“In the first two hours160 cars left”, Andrei Rempel, a representative of Mariupol city council, told Reuters.
Local authorities say between 2,300 and 20,000 civilians have died so far in Russian bombings in the citya record that could not be independently verified.
Of them powerful explosions shook the capital Kyiv before dawn on Tuesday. Emergency services said two people dead when an apartment building in Kyiv was attacked.
Air raid sirens sounded in several regions including Odessa, Chernihiv, Cherkasy and Smila.
the death Monday airstrike report on a television tower in northern Ukraine has increased to at least 19, said Vitaliy Koval, the governor of The North region of Rivne.
A curfew will be imposed on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv from 8 p.m. (6 p.m. GMT) on Tuesday at 7 a.m. (5 a.m. GMT) on Thursday after the attacks on apartment buildings by Russian forces based outside the cityMayor Vitaliy Klitschko announced.
New talks between Ukrainian and Russian negotiators to ease the crisis were expected on Tuesday after discussions on Monday via finished video with no new progress announced.
Thousands have been killed in heavy fighting and shelling since Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine on February 24.
Russia calls its actions “special military “operation” to “denazify” the country and prevent genocide, a claim that the United States and its allies reject as a pretext for an unjustified and illegal act attack.
Russia-China
The United States has warned China against providing military Where financial help in Moscow after invading Ukraine.
Moscow denies making such a request, saying it has sufficient resources to respond to all of its objectives, while China called the reports on assistance as “disinformation”.
According to US officials, Russia has requested for military and economical support from Beijing, which has signaled a willingness to provide aid.
“We’ve made it very clear to Beijing that we won’t stay here,” State Department spokesman Ned Price told reporters after U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan met China’s top diplomat Yang Jiechi in Rome. “We will not allow any country to compensate Russia for his losses.”
The seven-hour encounter was “intense” and reflected “the seriousness of moment,” according to a US official.
In Russia, a rare anti-war demonstration took place in a studio during the main news program on State TV’s Channel One, which is the main source of news for millions of Russians and closely follows the Kremlin line.
A woman holding up a sign in English and Russian saying, “NO WAR. Stop the war. Don’t believe the propaganda. They are lying to you here.”
The British Ministry of Defense has said that Russia may consider use chemical or biological weapons in Ukraine in response to a fake staged attack on Russian troops, without citing evidence. US officials have made similar statements.
Russia accuses Ukraine of plan to use biological weapons. The United Nations on Friday said he had no proof Kyiv had such program.
At disabled Chernobyl nuclear reactor, power has been restored after damage forced the plant to count on electricity from diesel generators, Ukraine 24 reported on Tuesday.
the UN says more more than 2.8 millions people have now left Ukraine since start of the war.
Other sanctions
The Member States of the European Union have agreed on Monday to fourth package of punishments against Russia, according to France.
Details were not officially released, but diplomatic sources said they would include an import ban on Russian steel and iron, an export ban on luxury goods and a ban on investment in the energy sector.
chelsea football team owner Roman Abramovich and 14 others would be added to the EU blacklist, the sources said.
A jet linked to Abramovich has landed in Moscow early on Tuesday, after taking off from Istanbul after a brief stop there, aircraft tracking data showed.
Japan on Tuesday announced a asset Freeze for 17 Russian people, including 11 members of the Russian Duma, or parliamentfive family members of banker Yuri Kovalchuk, as well as billionaire Viktor Vekselberg after similar United States moves.
Western-led sanctions cut off Russia off from key rooms of global financial markets and froze almost half of the country’s $640 billion in gold and currency reserves, triggering the worst economic crisis since the fall of 1991 of Soviet Union.
The Russian Finance Ministry said it was preparing to service some of its foreign currency debt on Wednesday, but these payments will be made in rubles if sanctions prevent banks from honoring their debts in currency of issue.
Ukraine hopes to open nine corridors on Tuesday to evacuate civilians trapped by Russian forces, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said, seeking to deliver humanitarian supplies to the beleaguered port of Mariupol.
Hundreds of thousands of residents of Mariupol, constantly bombarded, took refuge in basements and building ruins without water or power for more only a week. Moscow on Monday allowed the first convoy to escape.
“In the first two hours160 cars left”, Andrei Rempel, a representative of Mariupol city council, told Reuters.
Local authorities say between 2,300 and 20,000 civilians have died so far in Russian bombings in the citya record that could not be independently verified.
Of them powerful explosions shook the capital Kyiv before dawn on Tuesday. Emergency services said two people dead when an apartment building in Kyiv was attacked.
Air raid sirens sounded in several regions including Odessa, Chernihiv, Cherkasy and Smila.
the death Monday airstrike report on a television tower in northern Ukraine has increased to at least 19, said Vitaliy Koval, the governor of The North region of Rivne.
A curfew will be imposed on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv from 8 p.m. (6 p.m. GMT) on Tuesday at 7 a.m. (5 a.m. GMT) on Thursday after the attacks on apartment buildings by Russian forces based outside the cityMayor Vitaliy Klitschko announced.
New talks between Ukrainian and Russian negotiators to ease the crisis were expected on Tuesday after discussions on Monday via finished video with no new progress announced.
Thousands have been killed in heavy fighting and shelling since Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine on February 24.
Russia calls its actions “special military “operation” to “denazify” the country and prevent genocide, a claim that the United States and its allies reject as a pretext for an unjustified and illegal act attack.
Russia-China
The United States has warned China against providing military Where financial help in Moscow after invading Ukraine.
Moscow denies making such a request, saying it has sufficient resources to respond to all of its objectives, while China called the reports on assistance as “disinformation”.
According to US officials, Russia has requested for military and economical support from Beijing, which has signaled a willingness to provide aid.
“We’ve made it very clear to Beijing that we won’t stay here,” State Department spokesman Ned Price told reporters after U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan met China’s top diplomat Yang Jiechi in Rome. “We will not allow any country to compensate Russia for his losses.”
The seven-hour encounter was “intense” and reflected “the seriousness of moment,” according to a US official.
In Russia, a rare anti-war demonstration took place in a studio during the main news program on State TV’s Channel One, which is the main source of news for millions of Russians and closely follows the Kremlin line.
A woman holding up a sign in English and Russian saying, “NO WAR. Stop the war. Don’t believe the propaganda. They are lying to you here.”
The British Ministry of Defense has said that Russia may consider use chemical or biological weapons in Ukraine in response to a fake staged attack on Russian troops, without citing evidence. US officials have made similar statements.
Russia accuses Ukraine of plan to use biological weapons. The United Nations on Friday said he had no proof Kyiv had such program.
At disabled Chernobyl nuclear reactor, power has been restored after damage forced the plant to count on electricity from diesel generators, Ukraine 24 reported on Tuesday.
the UN says more more than 2.8 millions people have now left Ukraine since start of the war.
Other sanctions
The Member States of the European Union have agreed on Monday to fourth package of punishments against Russia, according to France.
Details were not officially released, but diplomatic sources said they would include an import ban on Russian steel and iron, an export ban on luxury goods and a ban on investment in the energy sector.
chelsea football team owner Roman Abramovich and 14 others would be added to the EU blacklist, the sources said.
A jet linked to Abramovich has landed in Moscow early on Tuesday, after taking off from Istanbul after a brief stop there, aircraft tracking data showed.
Japan on Tuesday announced a asset Freeze for 17 Russian people, including 11 members of the Russian Duma, or parliamentfive family members of banker Yuri Kovalchuk, as well as billionaire Viktor Vekselberg after similar United States moves.
Western-led sanctions cut off Russia off from key rooms of global financial markets and froze almost half of the country’s $640 billion in gold and currency reserves, triggering the worst economic crisis since the fall of 1991 of Soviet Union.
The Russian Finance Ministry said it was preparing to service some of its foreign currency debt on Wednesday, but these payments will be made in rubles if sanctions prevent banks from honoring their debts in currency of issue.