Anti-aircraft sirens sounded intermittently in the capital yesterday as the Army reinforced defenses in nearby towns to try to stop the advance of the convoy sent by the Kremlin.
In Mariupol, at least 17 adults were injured in the bombing of a pediatric hospital, announced a regional official, Pavlo Kirilenko, and specified that according to the first reports “there is no child” among them or any deceased.
“It is appalling to see the barbaric use of military force against innocent civilians in a sovereign country,” the White House reacted, while British Prime Minister Boris Johnson described this attack as “immoral.”
The UN, for its part, called for “the immediate cessation of attacks on health facilities, hospitals, health workers, ambulances.”
The Ukrainian president, Volodímir Zelenski, uploaded images of the destroyed hospital to social networks in a message in which he once again made public his anger with NATO for refusing to declare a no-fly zone over his country: “How much longer will the world will be complicit in ignoring terror? Close the sky right now! Enough killing!” The port city of Mariupol is the scene of one of the most desperate situations since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, 14 days ago: the bombardments destroyed buildings and left its population without water, electricity, heating, telephone services and sewage. .
Local authorities said they planned to start digging mass graves for the dead and the Red Cross reported yesterday that people were melting snow or waiting for rain so they could drink water.
Thousands of people, military and civilians, are estimated to have died since Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the start of the invasion with the stated goal of protecting Russian-speaking Ukrainians from the Kiev government and preventing Ukraine from joining NATO. , as the United States wants.
The actual number of casualties is uncertain, varies as reported by each side, and grows as fighting intensifies.
The UN said yesterday that it has evidence of 516 deaths, including at least 37 children, in a balance that also accounts for 908 injured civilians, 50 of them identified as minors.
On the other hand, the exodus of Ukrainians to neighboring countries continues: according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Filippo Grandi, between “2.1 million and 2.2 million” people left since February 24 .
Russia and Ukraine agreed to open humanitarian corridors for 12 hours to allow the evacuation of civilians from various areas devastated by bombing.
These scheduled corridors go from Energodar to Zaporizhia (south), from Izium to Lozova (east) and from Sumy to Polatava (northeast). Routes to Kiev will also be opened from areas located to the northwest of the capital such as Bucha, Irpin or Gostomel.
Source: Ambito
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