Anastasia's other child was killed during the shelling of Mariupol. Russian attacks continued in areas where Ukraine was trying to evacuate people and bring aid through humanitarian corridors, said the governors of the Kyiv and Donetsk regions.Īnastasia Erashova cries as she hugs her child in a corridor of a hospital in Mariupol, eastern Ukraine on Friday, March 11, 2022. Ukrainian President Zelenskiy warned Russian forces they face a fight to the death if they try to occupy Kyiv, while France said Russian President Putin had shown no willingness to make peace.ĭaily evacuations from a number of Ukrainian cities nearly doubled to some 13,000 people, the deputy prime minister said. On Saturday, Russia bombarded cities across Ukraine, pounding Mariupol in the south, shelling the outskirts of the capital, Kyiv, and thwarting the efforts of people trying to flee the violence. Since 2015, the US has regularly sent instructors to the military range, also known as the Yaroviv International Peacekeeping and Security Center, to train Ukraine's military and the facility has also hosted international NATO drills. The range is 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Ukraine's border with Poland. Smoke from shelling rises as a wreath of flowers is placed at a cemetery in Vasylkiv south west of Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, March 12, 2022. Eight rockets were fired at the Yaroviv military range, located 30 kilometers (19 miles) northwest of Lviv, the regional administration said, without offering any details about possible casualties. Russian forces struck a military training base in western Ukraine on Sunday morning, bringing their offensive closer to the border with Poland. ◼ Russia’s state media and communication regulator, Rozcomnadzor, says Instagram will be banned, citing the social networking site “calls for violence against Russians” as the reason behind the embargo. The request has sparked fear in the White House that Beijing may aid Russia and undermine the West’s efforts in Ukraine. ◼ Russia has asked China for military equipment since the start of the invasion, the Financial Times reported. US secretary of state Antony Blinken condemned the attack, saying the brutality must stop. Boris Johnson called Russia’s actions barbaric and said it was a test of all of humanity. ◼ The death toll from the attack rose to 35 people. ◼ Russia’s defence ministry admitted responsibility for the rocket attack on the International Centre for Peacekeeping & Security, a military base, near Lviv on Sunday. ◼ The US national security adviser Jake Sullivan said that Russia would pay “severe price” if it initiated a chemical attack on Ukraine. “If you don’t close our sky, it is only a matter of time before Russian rockets fall on your territory, on Nato territory,” he said. ◼ President Zelenskiy urges Nato to impose no fly zone after the attack on the military base that brought the fighting close to the Polish border. Click here to read our daily update of the war.įor those who are joining us now, here’s a round-up of what has happened so far: A Ukrainian camera operator, Yevhenii Sakun, was reported to have been killed after Kyiv’s TV tower was shelled in the early days of the invasion. The killing of Brent Renaud, a 50-year-old American journalist in Irpin, a suburb of Kyiv, is the second reported death of a journalist in this war, and another tragic reminder of the dangers faced by media professionals covering conflict. The numbers include: a total of 596 killed (124 men, 85 women, 6 girls, and 10 boys, as well as 27 children and 344 adults whose sex is yet unknown) a total of 1,067 injured (97 men, 69 women, 14 girls, and 4 boys, as well as 39 children and 844 adults whose sex is yet unknown). Here’s what you need to know about the war now: The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has recorded 1,663 civilian casualties in Ukraine from February 24 until March 13: 596 killed and 1,067 injured. Today, March 14, is Day 20 of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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