The newest developments on the Russia-Ukraine battle:
LVIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has mentioned he'll proceed negotiating with Russia and is ready for a gathering with Vladimir Putin.
Zelensky has repeatedly known as for a gathering with Putin. However up to now, his requests have gone unanswered by the Kremlin. Zelensky mentioned Sunday throughout his nightly handle to the nation that his delegation has a “clear activity” to do every part to make sure a gathering between the 2 presidents.
Zelensky mentioned talks are held every day between the 2 nations by way of video convention. He mentioned the talks are vital to determine a ceasefire and extra humanitarian corridors. He mentioned these corridors have saved greater than 130,000 individuals in six days.
The humanitarian convoy to the besieged metropolis of Mariupol was blocked Sunday by Russian forces. Zelensky mentioned they'd strive once more Monday.
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LVIV, Ukraine -- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has mentioned it's a "black day" after Russia shelled a army base within the western a part of his nation.
Zelensky mentioned in his nightly handle on Sunday that Russia fired 30 rockets on the Yavoriv army base. He mentioned the assault killed 35 individuals and injured 134 injured others.
The bottom is lower than 25 kilometres from the Polish border. Zelensky mentioned he had given Western leaders "clear warning" of the hazard to the bottom. He requested NATO leaders once more to determine a no-fly zone over Ukraine. He warned "it's only a matter of time" earlier than Russian missels fall on NATO territory.
Army analysts say the U.S, Britain and their European allies are unlikely to impose a no-fly zone as a result of they imagine it might escalate the battle in Ukraine right into a nuclear confrontation between NATO and Russia.
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GENEVA -- The Crimson Cross is warning of a "worst-case state of affairs" for tons of of hundreds of civilians within the besieged Ukrainian metropolis of Mariupol until the events agree to make sure their security and entry to humanitarian support.
The pinnacle of the Worldwide Committee of the Crimson Cross, Peter Maurer, mentioned in a press release mentioned Sunday that residents of Mariupol "have endured a weeks-long life-and-death nightmare."
The Geneva-based humanitarian company mentioned tons of of hundreds of individuals within the metropolis are "dealing with excessive or whole shortages of fundamental requirements like meals, water and drugs."
"Lifeless our bodies, of civilians and combatants, stay trapped below the rubble or mendacity within the open the place they fell," the ICRC added. "Life-changing accidents and persistent, debilitating circumstances can't be handled. The human struggling is just immense."
The Crimson Cross known as on the events to agree on the phrases of a ceasefire, routes for secure passage, and to make sure the deal is revered. It provided to behave as a impartial middleman in negotiations.
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Ukraine says it has restored a damaged energy line to the Chornobyl energy plant, the scene of a nuclear meltdown in 1986, which is held by Russian troops.
Power Minister Herman Halushchenko mentioned that "heroes" from the nationwide energy grid firm managed to revive the connection. The facility is used to run pumps which hold spent nuclear gas cool to stop radiation leaks.
Ukraine mentioned Wednesday that energy had been minimize to the positioning and that there was sufficient diesel gas to run on-site turbines for 48 hours. The Worldwide Atomic Power Company performed down considerations, saying it noticed little danger of the swimming pools containing the spent gas overheating even with out electrical energy.
Belarus mentioned Thursday it had arrange an emergency energy line to Chornobyl from its close by border.
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GENEVA -- The UN human rights workplace says no less than 596 civilians have been killed in Ukraine for the reason that begin of the battle, and no less than 1,067 have been injured.
The Workplace of the UN Excessive Commissioner for Human Rights mentioned Sunday that 43 of these killed have been kids, whereas 57 have been injured.
The Geneva-based workplace had documented 579 civilian deaths and 1,002 injured a day earlier.
It mentioned most recorded civilian casualties have been prompted "by means of explosive weapons with a large impression space," equivalent to shelling from heavy artillery and missile strikes.
UN officers mentioned they imagine the precise variety of casualties is "significantly greater" than up to now recorded as a result of the receipt of data has been delayed and lots of reviews nonetheless have to be corroborated.
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BERLIN -- Three UN companies are calling for a direct finish to assaults on well being care amenities in Ukraine, calling them "an act of unconscionable cruelty."
In a joint assertion Sunday, the UN Kids's Fund, the World Well being Group and the UN Inhabitants Fund mentioned that "horrific assaults are killing and inflicting critical accidents to sufferers and well being employees, destroying important well being infrastructure and forcing hundreds to forgo accessing well being providers regardless of catastrophic wants."
"To assault essentially the most weak -- infants, kids, pregnant girls, and people already affected by sickness and illness, and well being employees risking their very own lives to save lots of lives -- is an act of unconscionable cruelty," they mentioned.
Because the begin of the battle no less than 12 individuals have been killed and 34 have been injured, whereas 24 amenities and 5 ambulances have been broken or destroyed, the companies mentioned.
They mentioned that some 4,300 kids have been born for the reason that battle started and 80,000 Ukrainian girls are anticipated to provide delivery within the subsequent three months, with oxygen and different medical provides operating dangerously low.
"The well being care system in Ukraine is clearly below important pressure, and its collapse can be a disaster. Each effort have to be made to stop this from taking place," they mentioned.
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BERLIN -- The pinnacle of a gaggle offering humanitarian support in Ukraine says the worldwide neighborhood wants to begin planning for how you can assist the nation when the battle ends.
Pavlo Titko, who heads the Ukraine department of the Germany-based Malteser support group, says the battle might worsen the already tough demographic state of affairs in Ukraine the place many educated younger individuals have moved overseas, leaving the poor and aged behind.
Titko informed The Related Press in a phone interview Sunday from Ukraine's jap metropolis of Lviv that the nation wants a "long-term perspective."
He urged Western nations to create partnerships between cities and establishments equivalent to these established with Ukraine in the course of the Nineteen Nineties that helped forestall a number of the worst impacts of the financial disaster following the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Titko mentioned Malteser Ukraine, which offers hundreds of heat meals at prepare stations and border crossings every day, has additionally begun providing psychological assist to these traumatized by the battle. That want will dramatically enhance in future, he predicted.
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Dozens of Russian nationals joined Ukrainians within the coastal resort city of Limassol, dwelling to a sizeable Russian expatriate neighborhood, to protest the battle in Ukraine.
About 50 Russians converged on Limassol's promenade previous to becoming a member of with different protesters Sunday to chant slogans together with "Cease the battle, cease Putin" and "Russia with out Putin." They waved blue and white flags that they mentioned have been the Russian nationwide flag with out the crimson stripe that represented "blood and violence."
Protester Evgeniya Shlikava, who has been dwelling and dealing in Cyprus for 5 years, informed The Related Press that regardless of Russian propaganda, Ukraine "did not deserve this motion from our authorities" and that protesters are demanding a direct finish to the battle "that we do not assist."
"I do imagine that the one who did essentially the most to make Russia weak and never united is Putin himself," mentioned Shlikava, who faulted the Russian president and his supporters for bringing the world's wrath on Russia that's happy with its humanistic values and tradition.
"However now Russia is the aggressor for the entire world, and we protest it," Shlikava mentioned.
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A U.S. journalist being handled at a hospital within the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv says that he and a U.S. colleague have been shot after they have been stopped at a checkpoint simply after a bridge in Irpin, a city close to Kyiv.
Juan Arredondo informed Italian journalist Annalisa Camilli in an interview from the hospital earlier than being taken for surgical procedure that the colleague who was with him was hit within the neck and remained on the bottom earlier on Sunday.
Camilli informed The Related Press that she was on the hospital when Arredondo arrived and that Arredondo had himself had been wounded, hit within the decrease again when stopped at a Russian checkpoint.
Arredondo informed Camilli he did not have additional data on the guy U.S. journalist, whom he recognized as Brent Renaud, a buddy. He informed Camilli they have been filming refugees fleeing the world once they have been shot at whereas in a automotive approaching a checkpoint. The driving force rotated however the firing at them continued, Arredondo added.
A press release from Kyiv regional police mentioned that Russian troops opened hearth on the automotive, and that one journalist died. Arredondo mentioned that an ambulance introduced him to the hospital and that Renaud was "left behind."
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LVIV, Ukraine --Kyiv Area police says a U.S. video journalist has died and one other journalist was injured once they have been attacked by Russian forces in Ukraine.
The police drive mentioned Sunday on its official web site that Russian troops opened hearth on the automotive of Brent Renaud and one other journalist in Irpin close to the capital. It mentioned the injured journalist was being taken to a hospital in Kyiv.
A New York Occasions spokesperson mentioned Renaud, 50, was a "gifted filmmaker who had contributed to The New York Occasions over time." It mentioned he was not working for the publication on the time of his loss of life.
The police drive mentioned: "After all, the career of journalism carries dangers. Nonetheless, U.S. citizen Brent Renaud paid along with his life attempting to focus on the deceit, cruelty and ruthlessness of the aggressor."
Requested concerning the reviews, White Home nationwide safety adviser Jake Sullivan informed CBS Information that the U.S. authorities can be consulting with the Ukrainians to find out how this occurred and would then "execute applicable penalties."
"That is half and parcel of what has been a brazen aggression on the a part of the Russians, the place they've focused civilians, they've focused hospitals, they've focused locations of worship, and so they have focused journalists," Sullivan mentioned.
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WASHINGTON -- White Home nationwide safety adviser Jake Sullivan says Russia will face a response from NATO ought to any of its assaults in Ukraine cross borders and hit members of the safety alliance.
Russian missiles on Sunday struck a army coaching base near Ukraine's western border with NATO member Poland and killed 35 individuals.
Sullivan tells CBS Information' "Face the Nation" that U.S. President Joe Biden "has been clear repeatedly that the US will work with our allies to defend each inch of NATO territory and meaning each inch."
Sullivan says a army assault on NATO territory would trigger the invocation of Article 5. That requires different nations in NATO to return to the defence of the attacked nation. Sullivan says "We'll carry the complete drive of the NATO alliance to bear in responding."
Sullivan says NATO would reply even when a shot by Russia that hit NATO territory was unintentional.
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LVIV, Ukraine -- Ukraine's president says practically 125,000 civilians have been evacuated by safe-passage corridors up to now, and a convoy with humanitarian support is headed to the besieged metropolis of Mariupol.
"We've already evacuated virtually 125,000 individuals to the secure territory by humanitarian corridors," Volodymyr Zelensky mentioned in a video handle launched Sunday. "The primary activity at this time is Mariupol. Our convoy with humanitarian support is 2 hours away from Mariupol. Solely 80km (left)."
"We're doing every part to counter occupiers who're even blocking Orthodox monks accompanying this support, meals, water and drugs. There are 100 tonnes of essentially the most vital issues that Ukraine despatched to its residents," Zelensky mentioned.
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VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis has decried the "barbarianism" of the killing of kids and different defenceless civilians in Ukraine and pleaded for a cease to the assaults "earlier than cities are decreased to cemeteries."
In a few of his strongest denunciations but of the battle in Ukraine, and in obvious reference to Russia, which invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, the pontiff mentioned that "there aren't any strategic causes that maintain up" within the face of such armed aggression.
Francis informed about 25,000 individuals gathered in St. Peter's Sq. for his customary Sunday midday look that Mariupol, the southern Ukrainian metropolis which "bears the identify" of the Virgin Mary, has "change into a metropolis martyred by the heartbreaking battle that's devastating Ukraine."
"Within the identify of God, I ask: `Cease this bloodbath,"' Francis mentioned, sparking applause from the pilgrims, vacationers and Romans, a few of whom held Ukrainian flags, within the sq..
Francis prayed for an finish of the bombings and different assaults and for making certain that humanitarian corridors "are secure and safe."
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ANTALYA, Turkey-- Turkey's overseas minister says his nation is attempting to evacuate Turkish residents who have been sheltering in a mosque in Mariupol.
Russian shells hit close to the Sultan Suleiman Mosque Saturday. Overseas Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu mentioned the mosque had not been broken and so they had made contact with the Turkish nationals by satellite tv for pc telephones. He didn't specify the variety of individuals sheltering there. The Ukrainian Embassy in Ankara mentioned Saturday 89 Turks, together with 34 kids, have been on the mosque.
The minister mentioned he spoke along with his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, to ask for his assist for a humanitarian evacuation hall in Mariupol. Buses have been prepared for his or her evacuation Saturday however had not been capable of enter town due to clashes. Efforts continued Sunday.
Cavusoglu mentioned 489 Turkish residents had been evacuated Saturday from locations the place clashes continued, together with Kherson and Kharkiv.
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TEL AVIV, Israel -- Israel's overseas minister is condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine, calling on Moscow to halt its assaults and finish the battle.
Yair Lapid's criticism Sunday is among the many strongest that has come from Israeli officers for the reason that battle started. His remarks set him aside from Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, who has stopped in need of condemning Russia.
Israel has walked a wonderful line in its response to the disaster. Bennett has voiced assist for the Ukrainian individuals and the nation has despatched humanitarian support to Ukraine. However Israel depends on Russia for safety coordination in Syria, the place Russia has a army presence and the place Israeli plane have regularly struck enemy targets over latest years. Bennett has been making an attempt to mediate between the Kremlin and Ukraine.
Lapid made his remarks in Bucharest, Romania, the place he met his Romanian counterpart.
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LVIV, Ukraine -- The workplace of Ukraine's Prosecutor Normal says a complete of 85 kids have been killed for the reason that begin of the Russian offensive in Ukraine.
Greater than 100 extra have been wounded, the workplace mentioned. Officers additionally mentioned that bombings and shelling have broken 369 instructional amenities within the nation, 57 of which have been utterly destroyed.
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LVIV, Ukraine -- Not less than 9 individuals have been killed and 57 wounded when a Russian airstrike hit a army coaching base in western Ukraine near the Polish border, a neighborhood official mentioned Sunday.
The governor of the Lviv area, Maksym Kozytskyi, mentioned Russian forces fired greater than 30 cruise missiles on the Yavoriv army vary, situated 30 kilometres (19 miles) northwest of town of Lviv and 35 kilometres (22 miles) from Ukraine's border with Poland.
The assault introduced the battle nearer to the border with Poland. A senior Russian diplomat has warned that Moscow thought of overseas shipments of army gear to Ukraine "professional targets."
The US and NATO have repeatedly despatched instructors to the vary, also called the Worldwide Peacekeeping and Safety Heart, to coach Ukrainian army personnel. The ability has additionally hosted worldwide NATO drills.
Russian fighters additionally fired on the airport in Ivano-Frankivsk, a metropolis in western Ukraine situated 250 kilometres (155.34 miles) from Ukraine's border with Slovakia and Hungary.
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SUCEAVA, Romania -- A widow fleeing the battle in Ukraine together with her teenage son has described the harrowing scenes they witnessed throughout their days-long journey from their bombed hometown of Chernihiv in north Ukraine.
The 44-year-old Elena Yurchuk labored as a nurse at a neighborhood hospital she says now not exists. She says, "Our metropolis is below siege and we barely escaped."
She says, "Folks in automobiles are blown up by mines, a automotive with kids and a younger household was blown up actually behind us."
Yurchuk described Chernihiv as a "ghost city" with no electrical energy once they left. After reaching Suceava in north Romania, she's not sure the place they will go subsequent. They've earmarked Germany as a closing vacation spot, the place she hopes to search out work caring for the aged.
She says, "I do not know the language, will probably be tough for me." She added that a variety of refugees have already arrived, saying, "I perceive that nobody wants us. "
She says her home was within the centre subsequent to a lodge that was bombed in an airstrike, including, "I do not know if I've a house or not."
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ROME -- Italian state radio says a bus carrying about 50 refugees from Ukraine has overturned on a serious freeway in northern Italy, killing a passenger and injuring a number of others, none of them severely.
RAI radio mentioned one girl died and the remainder of these aboard the bus have been safely evacuated after the accident early Sunday close to the city of Forli'. It wasn't instantly clear the place the bus was headed.
Some 35,000 Ukrainians refugees who fled the battle have entered Italy, most of them by its northeastern border with Slovenia. Forli is within the area of Emilia-Romagna, which borders the Adriatic Sea and which up to now has taken in some 7,000 refugees.
The accident is below investigation.
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LVIV, Ukraine -- Russian forces carried out an air strike on a army vary close to Lviv in western Ukraine, increasing its offensive nearer to the border with Poland.
The Russian army on Sunday morning fired eight rockets on the Yavoriv army vary 30 kilometres northwest of Lviv, the Lviv regional administration mentioned, with out providing any particulars about doable casualties.
The Yavoriv army vary, also called the Yavoriv Worldwide Peacekeeping and Safety Heart, is situated 35 kilometres from Ukraine's border with Poland.
Since 2015, the U.S. has repeatedly despatched instructors to the Yavoriv army vary to coach Ukraine's army. The vary has additionally hosted worldwide NATO drills.
On Friday, Russian forces shelled two airfields within the western cities of Lutsk and Ivano-Frankivsk, firing greater than 10 cruise missiles from Tu-95MS strategic bombers, the Ukrainian Normal Employees mentioned.
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LVIV, Ukraine -- Russia is attempting to create new "pseudo-republics" in Ukraine to interrupt his nation aside, President Volodymyr Zelensky mentioned in his nightly handle to the nation Saturday.
Zelensky known as on Ukraine's areas, together with Kherson, which was captured by Russian forces, to not repeat the expertise of Donetsk and Luhansk. Professional-Russian separatists started combating Ukrainian forces in these jap areas in 2014.
"The occupiers on the territory of the Kherson area try to repeat the unhappy expertise of the formation of pseudo-republics," Zelensky mentioned. "They're blackmailing native leaders, placing strain on deputies, on the lookout for somebody to bribe."
Metropolis council members in Kherson, a southern metropolis of 290,000, on Saturday rejected plans for a brand new pseudo-republic, Zelensky mentioned.
Russia acknowledged the Donetsk Folks's Republic and the Luhansk Folks's Republic earlier than invading Ukraine in February. Moscow mentioned it needed to defend the separatist areas, and is demanding that Ukraine acknowledge their independence too.
"Ukraine will stand this check. We want time and power to interrupt the battle machine that has come to our land," Zelensky mentioned.
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ZAHONY, Hungary -- Klara Uliganich is returning dwelling to Ukraine after spending practically three weeks in Hungary as a refugee.
The pensioner says she is going to return to her dwelling in Uzhhorod, a metropolis in western Ukraine.
"I acquired a sense, it is onerous to place it into phrases," she mentioned of her determination whereas ready on the railway station within the Hungarian border city of Zahony. "I used to be born there, that is my dwelling."
Her household did not need her to return, however she mentioned she was decided to return.
"I am unable to reside my life shaking in concern simply because the Russians are coming," she mentioned. "If they arrive, I will be a refugee once more, that is it."
Hungary, a rustic of round 10 million individuals, has taken in round 235,000 refugees from Ukraine as of Saturday, the second-highest variety of every other nation after Poland, which has obtained greater than 1.5 million refugees.
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KYIV, Ukraine -- Seven Ukrainian civilians, together with a baby, died when Russia shelled a humanitarian convoy of refugees and compelled them to show again, Ukraine's Ministry of Defence mentioned.
The seven have been amongst tons of of people that tried to flee the village of Peremoha, 20 kilometres (12 miles) northeast of Kyiv. An unknown variety of individuals have been wounded within the shelling, the report added.
Moscow has mentioned it will set up humanitarian corridors out of battle zones, however Ukrainian officers have accused Russia of disrupting these paths and firing on civilians.
On Saturday, Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk mentioned simply 9 of 14 agreed-upon corridors have been open on Saturday, and that about 13,000 individuals have been evacuated on them across the nation.
Not less than 2.5 million individuals have fled Ukraine for the reason that Russian invasion 17 days in the past, in keeping with the United Nations Refugee Company.
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WARSAW, Poland -- Yulia Kalachemkov is staying at a refugee centre in Warsaw together with her kids. They're among the many individuals fleeing Ukraine, which the United Nations refugee company says numbers no less than 2.5 million.
Her younger daughter has epilepsy and her 11-year-old autistic son Nikita is recovering from an operation on his ft that have been deformed at delivery.
She mentioned it was a wrestle to flee her dwelling nation and get to Poland's capital.
"It was simply so onerous attempting to carry my kids's fingers in case they fell and attempt to carry the baggage," Kalachemkov informed Sky Information.
At a close-by bus station, a Ukrainian girl who fled her dwelling in Kyiv briefly crossed paths together with her dad and mom, who have been heading again into Ukraine after a trip in Cuba.
"It is essentially the most horrible factor," mentioned Katarina, recognized solely by her first identify in Sky Information video. "Something might occur. It might be the final time I see my dad and mom."
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Sergiy Stakhovsky is a just lately retired skilled tennis participant from Ukraine who has left his spouse and three younger kids at dwelling in Hungary to return to his birthplace to assist how he can throughout Russia's invasion.
Stakhovsky mentioned in a video interview with the AP that he would by no means have imagined he can be in his dwelling metropolis with a gun in his fingers.
He earned greater than US$5 million in prize cash in tennis and upset Roger Federer at Wimbledon in 2013. Stakhovsky's final match got here in Australian Open qualifying in January.
Russia started attacking Ukraine on Feb. 24, and some days later, he arrived in Kyiv.
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MEDYKA, Poland -- About 60 little one most cancers sufferers from Ukraine boarded a medical prepare in a Polish city Saturday, sure for hospitals in Warsaw and elsewhere.
Medical employees carried some younger sufferers of their arms, on stretchers and in a wheelchair at a station in Medyka, close to the Ukrainian border.
"A few of them would require oxygen, would require some type of intensive care," and a few have COVID-19 and need to be saved separate from others," mentioned Dominik Daszuta, an anesthesiologist from Warsaw Hospital. He mentioned the prepare has transported 120 kids with most cancers up to now.
The United Nations refugee company says no less than 2.5 million individuals have fled Ukraine within the two weeks since Russia invaded it.
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