Mariupol continues to be the city most affected by Russian attacks. The latest news that comes from there is the bombing carried out on an art school that was being used as a refuge by more than 400 peoplewhich are feared to be under the rubble.
“The building is known to have been destroyed and civilians are still under the rubble. Information on the number of victims is being specified”, assures the City Council through a message on its Telegram account. This attack is added to the one carried out on the Dramatic Theater, where there were more than 1,300 refugee civilians. Of them, barely 130 people have been rescued so far.
Such is the situation that the City Council affirms that the Russian troops are taking their citizens to Russiabeing deported against their will. They add that Putin’s troops have taken refuge in a sports club where more than 1,000 Ukrainians were hiding from the bombing, a situation that they have been able to “use” to “to kidnap” to “several thousand residents” from the city.
Meanwhile, the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyhas decided suspend the activity of ten opposition parties with ties to the regime of Vladimir Putin. “I want to remind all politicians in any field: the war shows very well the scarcity of personal ambitions of those who try to put their own ambitions, their own party or career above the interests of the state, the interests of the people,” he said. remembered the Ukrainian leader. This suspension will remain in effect for the duration of martial law.
It has been one of the announcements of a Zelensky who has made a new appeal to the Russian population, assuring that the lines of defense of the Ukrainian resistance are “full of corpses of russian soldiers” that “they are not being recovered by anyone”. For the Ukrainian president, the Russian siege of Mariupol will be considered “an act of terror” that will be remembered “for centuries”.
The Ukrainian Prosecutor’s Office, for its part, denounces the death of 115 children during the war, with more than 140 wounded by Russian attacks. Another figure reported by the Ukrainian authorities is that of civilian casualties in Kharkov, which have risen to more than 260 since February 24.
The latest international positions to position themselves in this conflict have been India and Japanwho have asked for the “immediate cessation of violenceThus, Narendra Modi and Fumio Kishida have promised to adopt measures to help deal with the humanitarian crisis that Ukraine is going through. Australiafor its part, has banned with immediate effect the export of aluminum minerals to Russia, also committing itself to send more military material and humanitarian assistance to the Ukrainians.
Source: Lasexta
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