- The battle for control of the city of Marioupol continues, raising fears of heavy human losses on the Ukrainian side. On Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Moscow of wanting “annihilate other cities” of the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts and to seek ” destroy “ the Donbas. Everything will be done to defend this region, he promised. A Mariupol police officer, Mykhailo Verchynin, assures that “many civilians, including women, children, babies and the elderly”are entrenched in the Azovstal complex.
- Russia also continued its bombardments, Saturday and Sunday, targeting targets in eight Ukrainian regions. In kyiv, one person was killed and several others injured, in the raïon (administrative district) Darnytsky, and an armament factory was targeted. In Kharkiv (north-east), the second city of Ukraine, at least five people died on Sunday and twenty others were injured by a series of Russian strikes, noted the regional governor, Oleh Synehoubov.
- No humanitarian corridor on Sunday. The Ukrainian authorities announced on Sunday the suspension of the humanitarian corridors for the evacuation of civilians from eastern Ukraine, for lack of agreement with the Russian army on a cessation of firing. “This morning, we failed to negotiate a ceasefire on evacuation routes with the occupiers. That is why, unfortunately, we will not be opening any humanitarian corridors today”Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk explained on Telegram.
- The Ukrainian president said in an interview with CNN broadcast on Sunday that he had invited Emmanuel Macron to visit Ukraine to see with his own eyes that the Russian forces are committing a “genocide”a term that the French president has so far refused to use.
- On Saturday, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) announced that 40,200 additional people had fled Ukraine in twenty-four hours. In total, since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine by Russia on February 24, 4,836,445 people have fled the country.
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