Residents of Mariupol have been “forcibly” moved to Russia, where they have\s been “redirected” to places in the nation, the Mariupol municipal council has claimed. The council reported that “several thousand Mariupol citizens were deported to Russia”, having been transported to “filtration camps, where invaders examined people’s phones and documents”.
More than 6,600 Ukrainians were evacuated from besieged towns via eight humanitarian corridors on Saturday, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy has announced.
China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, believes his nation is “on the right side of history” as it continues to rail against sanctions placed on Russia and denies it is contemplating sending arms to Moscow.
Boris Johnson has encouraged China to jump off the fence and join in worldwide criticism of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, saying he felt some in Xi Jinping’s government were having “second thoughts” about Beijing’s neutral attitude.
Zelenskiy has urged to Switzerland to take down on Russian billionaires who he alleged are trying to wage war on Ukraine from the protection of “beautiful Swiss towns”. “Your banks are where the money of the individuals who launched this conflict rests. That is painful,” he stated, addressing an anti-war demonstration in Bern.
Poland has called for the European Union to establish a blanket embargo on commerce with Russia, prime minister Mateus Morawiecki has stated. “Poland is seeking to add a trade embargo to this package of measures as soon as feasible, (encompassing) both of its seaports ... but also a prohibition on land commerce.
The southern city of Zaporizhzhia underwent a 38-hour curfew starting at 4pm local time on Saturday after the Ukrainian military ordered locals to remain home until early on Monday. The city has become a vital passage for some of the 35,000 individuals reported to have fled the siege of Mariupol.
Aid organizations are being blocked from reaching people besieged in Ukrainian towns encircled by Russian military, the World Food Programme warned. It has warned that Ukraine’s food supply systems are breaking down, with many grocery shops and warehouses now vacant.
Ukraine may not grow enough crops to sell if this year’s planting season is hampered by Russia’s invasion, the presidential advisor Oleh Ustenko has claimed.
Russia claimed it had employed hypersonic missiles, which move fast enough to elude detection by missile defence systems, to attack an underground military base in western Ukraine. Its military ministry claimed on Saturday it attacked the storage for missiles and aircraft ammunition in the Ivano-Fehrankivsk area, the Interfax news agency reported. The ministry claimed it had also damaged Ukrainian military radio and surveillance stations near the port city of Odesa using a coastal missile system, according to Interfax.
Ten humanitarian routes were arranged with Russia for the evacuation of residents, deputy prime minister Iryna Vereshchuk has claimed. Reuters writes that Vereshchuk claimed a corridor had been established for the besieged city of Mariupol, but the authorities’ earlier attempts to evacuate inhabitants there under a temporary truce had generally failed
Kyiv authorities have claimed that 228 people, including four children, have been slain in the city. Ukraine’s ministry of international affairs estimated that 14,400 Russian servicemen had been killed since the start of the conflict.
Johnson has also come under harsh fire for equating the suffering of Ukrainians battling to the British population opting for Brexit. In his address to the Conservative spring conference in Blackpool, Johnson claimed it is the “instinct of the people of our nation, like the people of Ukraine, to choose freedom”, with the Brexit vote a “famous recent example”. The analogy was criticized by Tory senior Lord Barwell, who noted out Ukraine is aiming to join the EU.
Zelenskiy urged for “meaningful, fair” peace discussions to take place quickly. Ukraine’s president reminded Moscow that Russian losses would otherwise be so large it would take years to recover. “Negotiations on peace, on security for us, for Ukraine – meaningful, fair and without delay – are the only option for Russia to mitigate the harm from its own mistakes,” he added.
Aid organizations are being blocked from reaching people besieged in Ukrainian towns encircled by Russian military, the World Food Programme warned.
Ukraine may not grow enough crops to sell if this year’s planting season is hampered by Russia’s invasion, the presidential advisor Oleh Ustenko has claimed. “Ukraine has enough grain and food reserves to live for a year, but if the conflict continues ... [Ukraine] will not be able to sell grain to the world, and there will be problems,” he added, adding that Ukraine is the world’s fifth-largest wheat exporter.
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