Evacuations took place in eastern Ukraine on Thursday, April 7, for fear of a new Russian offensive in the Donbass. “We managed to evacuate more than 1,200 people” Wednesday, said Sergey Gaidai, governor of the Luhansk region. He clarified that all these evacuations took place in the absence of any ceasefire and under very difficult conditions, due to intense shelling by Russian forces. Follow our live.
New sanctions against Moscow. The United States on Wednesday announced new economic measures against Russia, which it describes as “devastating” and which notably target the big banks and the daughters of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Europeans are also discussing the adoption of new sanctions.
Russia has been accused of ‘war crimes’ after the discovery of dozens of corpses of civilians in several localities near kyiv, including the town of Boutcha. The Kremlin denies any involvement in these abuses.
Thousands still stranded in Mariupol. A convoy of seven buses and around 40 private vehicles, coming from this region and placed under the protection of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), arrived in Zaporizhia on Wednesday. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Russia of blocking humanitarian access to Mariupol, to hide the “thousands” victims of the siege of this port city.