Russia intensifies its attack on kyiv. New explosions have been heard again tonight in the capital of Ukraine, in the suburbs, according to a CNN team on the ground. Air-raid alarms sounded loudly in kyiv and other cities. Sirens have been activated in Cherkassy, Dnipro, Lviv, kyiv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Odessa, Vinnytsia, Kirovohrad and Khmelnytskyi Oblasts. As well as in the cities of Izyum, Kremenchuk, Bila Tserkva, Nikopol, Mykolaiv, Izmail, Odessa, Poltava and the Kryve Ozero area. During the twentieth night of war, the Russian offensive continues and thousands of civilians have had to take shelter from bombing in bunkers in various areas of Ukraine.
Even without precise information on the attacks, they have already seen plumes of smoke rising over the kyiv skyline. Meanwhile, Russia announces that its forces have taken full control of the southern region of Kherson. And Ukraine reports that 19 people have been killed in an attack on a television tower in Rivne.
All in one day in the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, has suggested that there is still some reason to be optimistic and that the negotiations could still lead to an agreement with the Russian government. Although he has called for more weapons and more sanctions to punish Russia and “close the skies over Ukraine to Russian missiles and aircraft.”
According to Zelensky, during the last day 28,893 civilians were able to flee the fighting through nine humanitarian corridors, although the Russians refused to allow aid into Mariupol.
According to UN data, about 3 million people have fled Ukrainealmost half of them children. About 1.8 million are now in Poland and about 300,000 in Western Europe.
Thus, the exodus continues. About 2,000 cars managed to get out of the besieged port city from Mariupol in recent days, though Ukraine accuses Russia of blocking a convoy trying to bring supplies.
On the other hand, the International Red Cross has achieved that a long caravan of more than 100 buses carrying civilians left the besieged city of Sumy, in the northeast of the country.
Source: Lasexta
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