The Russian army bombed an art school where some 400 people were sheltering in the besieged city of Mariupol on Sunday, according to Ukrainian authorities. Ukraine’s president said the suffocating Russian siege of the port city would be remembered for centuries. It was the second time in less than a week that municipal authorities reported […]
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Ukraine admits it has no chance to strengthen Mariupol defense
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Updated on 03/19/2022 09:05 pm The Ukrainian authorities admitted this Saturday that they have no chance of reinforcing the defense of the city of Mariupol, heavily attacked by the Russians. Olexij Arestowytsch, an adviser to President Volodimir Zelensky, said the closest forces are more than 100 kilometers away or already engaged in fighting with the […]
Russian forces surround Kiev and blockade Mariupol
The russian forces they staked around Kyiv on Saturday and bombed civilian areas of other cities ukrainianincluding a hospital in Mikolaiv, and tightened the siege of Mariupola southeastern port city under siege for two weeks. Russian bombardments ripped through Vasylkiv airport on Saturday morning, some 40km south of Kiev, where a petrol depot caught fire, […]
Ukraine postpones the evacuation of Mariupol due to Russian violation of the ceasefire
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The evacuation of the civilian population from Mariupol, in southeastern Ukraine, was postponed due to the breach of the ceasefire around the city and its surroundings “by the Russian side”, the City Council reported today. “Because the Russian side does not respect the truce and continues the bombardment of both Mariupol itself and its surroundings, […]