Here’s what you need to know today about the fighting between Russia and Ukraine.
Posted at 5:56 p.m.
- The evacuation of hundreds of thousands of civilians was still in jeopardy on Wednesday by Russian forces, despite the announcement of a truce by Russia. In Mariupol, a besieged city, a pediatric hospital was destroyed by an airstrike, injuring 17 people. The attack, which occurred on the 14and day of the war, was strongly condemned by the Ukrainian government and internationally.
- The nine-day Russian siege on the strategic port of Mariupol, in southern Ukraine, has left a total of 1,207 civilian dead, the town hall said on its Telegram channel on Wednesday evening.
- Russian troops are approaching the gates of Kyiv. Convoys of Russian military vehicles are now within fifteen kilometers of the capital.
- On the eve of new negotiations between Russia and Ukraine in Turkey, the Ukrainian president once again urged world powers to send him the fighter jets offered by Poland. The United States definitively rejected the request.
- So far, the Russian invasion has killed 516 civilians, including 37 children, and injured 908 people, including 50 children, most of them under shelling, according to the latest report from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. . The number of refugees who have fled Ukraine is now estimated between “2.1 and 2.2 million people”, including 1 million children.
- The disused Chernobyl nuclear power plant, which fell into Russian hands, was cut off from the electricity grid. The breakdown would not compromise the nuclear material cooling systems, the International Atomic Energy Agency said during the day.
- Canada announced the shipment of a new shipment of military equipment worth $50 million, including drones, after a discussion between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky.
With Agence France-Presse and the Associated Press