Russia has been bombing Ukraine for more than two weeks now. Talks between Russian and Ukrainian foreign ministers are taking place today in Turkey.
Here are the latest developments of the day, minute by minute
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A Quebec doctor has just joined an American surgeon and a Polish paramedic to treat Ukrainian refugees in an improvised medical tent at one of Poland’s busiest border crossings.
5:13 am | Three people including a girl killed at the Mariupol pediatric hospital
Three people, including a child, were killed in the Russian bombardment of a pediatric hospital in Mariupol (east) on Wednesday, the town hall of this port city announced on Thursday.
“Three people died, including a little girl,” the municipality said on Telegram. The previous report published the day before by the authorities reported 17 people injured.
4h32 | Beginning of the meeting of the heads of Russian and Ukrainian diplomats in Turkey
Talks between the foreign ministers of Russia Sergei Lavrov and Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba have started in southern Turkey in the presence of their Turkish counterpart, a Turkish diplomat confirmed to AFP.
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The infamous Chernobyl power plant, where the worst nuclear accident of the 20th century occurred in 1986, lost access to electricity on Wednesday allowing it to cool radioactive toxic waste and transmit data from control systems. Here is what to remember from this event which comes a few days after the most powerful of the five nuclear power plants in Ukraine, Zaporijjia, fell into the hands of the Russian invader.
WAR NOTEBOOK | Access to suburbs of Kyiv blocked
The Russians made few significant advances. They seem to be consolidating their forces for attacks on three major cities: Kyiv, Odessa and Zaporijia.
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