RUSSIA-UKRAINE LIVE: Anti-tank weapons sent to Kyiv and petrol prices soar amid Vladimir Putin’s war
RUSSIA-UKRAINE LIVE: KFC and Pizza Hut are latest companies to have left Russia, Britain gives Ukraine 3,615 anti-tank weapons, petrol prices soar as US and UK plan oil import ban from Moscow over Vladimir Putin’s war
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Renewed efforts to evacuate civilians from bombarded Ukrainian cities were today underway as authorities seek to rescue people from dire conditions.
Days of shelling have largely cut residents of the southern city of Mariupol off from the outside world and forced them to scavenge for food and water.
Authorities announced another ceasefire to allow civilians to escape from Mariupol and Sumy in the north-east, Enerhodar in the south, Volnovakha in the south-east, Izyum in the east, and several towns in the region around Kyiv.
Thousands of people are thought to have been killed, both civilians and soldiers, in two weeks of fighting since President Vladimir Putin’s forces invaded.
The UN estimates that more than two million people have fled the country, the biggest exodus of refugees in Europe since the end of the Second World War.
The crisis is likely to get worse as Russian forces step up their bombardment of cities in response to stronger-than-expected resistance from Ukrainian forces.
Russian forces are placing military equipment on farms and amid residential buildings in the northern city of Chernihiv, Ukraine’s general staff said.
In the south, Russians dressed in civilian clothes are advancing on the city of Mykolaiv, a Black Sea shipbuilding centre of a half-million people, it added.
The Ukrainian military is building up defences in cities in the north, south and east, and forces around Kyiv are ‘holding the line’ against the Russian offensive.
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