Zelensky: Russian troops have a clear order to hold Mariupol hostage
Russian troops have a clear order to hold Mariupol hostage and to torture it, but Ukraine is doing everything to help the city.
11 March 2022
Russian troops have a clear order to hold Mariupol hostage and to torture it, but Ukraine is doing everything to help the city.
10 March 2022
Since the beginning of the war, the number of Ukrainian civilians killed by Russian invaders exceeds the number of military of all defense sectors fallen in fighting.
On Thursday, March 10, more than 38,000 citizens have been evacuated through organized humanitarian corridors.
Over the two weeks of war in Donetsk region, Russian invaders have destroyed and damaged more than 400 infrastructure facilities.
Mariupol is under siege by Russian invaders, but the town is holding on and Ukrainians are fighting for it.
EU High Representative Josep Borrell and EU Commissioner for Crisis Management Janez Lenarcic have condemned Russia's attack on a maternity hospital in Mariupol, saying those guilty of this and other crimes committed in Ukraine will be held accountable.
Russian leader Vladimir Putin has failed in all his plans and calculations drawn before the start of Russian aggression against Ukraine, and now he must immediately stop this senseless and unprovoked war.
In a statement on Russia's invasion of Ukraine, former Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma has said he is proud to be Ukrainian and believes in victory over Putin's Russia.
The representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Igor Konashenkov, and the chief of Russian diplomacy, Sergei Lavrov, offered directly opposite versions of the Russian air raid on March 9, in which a Mariupol clinic and maternity hospital were hit.
Russian invaders could blow up ammonia depots in the Kharkiv region to blame the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
A special state reconstruction program will be created for each city affected by Russian aggression.
Russian propagandists will be brought to justice for complicity in war crimes, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has said in his video address.
Humanitarian corridors have been opened only in Sumy region so far, whereas it is still difficult to talk about other regions.
Foreign Minister of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba said that at a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Serhiy Lavrov in Antalya, the parties failed to make progress on establishing a humanitarian corridor in Mariupol and a 24-hour ceasefire.
In Donetsk region, Mariupol is still being blocked for the evacuation of people, the situation in the Kyiv direction is better, but still very uncertain.
Russian air strikes are now hitting the center of Mariupol.
Evacuation buses have already left Zaporizhzhia and are moving towards Mariupol.
Russian invaders again launched an airstrike on Mariupol, killing one person.
Ukraine is opening humanitarian corridors from Mariupol, Volnovakha, Izium, Sumy, Trostianets and Krasnopil and a number of towns around the Ukrainian capital - Bucha, Borodianka, Irpin and Hostomel.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has held talks with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu as part of his working visit to Antalya.
The Ukrainian forces continue to restrain the offensive of Russian troops in the south-eastern direction.
On March 9, Ukrainian forces defending Mariupol, a strategic port city on the Sea of Azov, destroyed four Russian main battle tanks, an infantry fighting vehicle, as well as destroyed and damaged 11 Russian armored vehicles.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken drew an analogy between the Nazi siege of Leningrad during World War II and what the Kremlin is currently doing to the city of Mariupol in Ukraine.
Minister for Veterans Affairs of Ukraine Yulia Laputina has called on world leaders to close the skies over Ukraine.
Ukraine is ready to make reasonable concessions to end the war, but the other side must be ready to compromise as well.
Today is the day that defines everything. Defines who is on whose side. Russian bombs fell on a hospital and maternity hospital in Mariupol. Children's hospital. Maternity hospital that is functioning! Buildings are destroyed. As of now, there are 17 wounded. Disassembly of the debris is still ongoing. People began to hide from the air threat in time.
09 March 2022
On behalf of entire Ukraine, First Lady of Ukraine Olena Zelenska is asking the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to close the skies.
Russian invaders suffered significant losses during the offensive operations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Borodianka and Makariv.
The leader of the Servant of the People parliamentary faction, David Arakhamia, said that more than 40,000 women and children from all over Ukraine had been evacuated in one day.
At least 17 people were injured after a Russian air strike hit a maternity hospital in Mariupol.