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They rescue 130 people from the devastated theater in Mariupol and the bombs reach an airport near Poland

2022-03-18T12:56:46.930Z


The bombardments reached the Lviv airport, 43 miles from Poland, a NATO member country. The city is a humanitarian corridor for hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing war.


The main cities of Ukraine continue to resist this Friday the onslaught of the Russian Army in the fourth week of the conflict.

In Mariupol, in the south of the country, the Ukrainian emergency services rescued 130 people from the bombed theater on Wednesday, in which hundreds of Ukrainians were taking refuge.

"There are still 1,300 people who are in the basements of the theater," Ukrainian human rights ombudsman Liudmyla Denisova said in a televised speech, according to a translation by NBC News.

The shelter housed mainly women and children.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed 43 attacks on health facilities in Ukraine, in which 12 people have died and 34 others have been injured, including health workers, the WHO director-general announced on Thursday.

Russia has denied targeting civilians.

Missiles against a key city for refugees

Attacks continued in the rest of the country, with several Russian missiles hitting the area around Lviv airport on Friday, 43 miles (70 kilometers) from NATO member Poland.

Although there were no fatalities, the city is established as a humanitarian corridor for hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing war.

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The missiles that fell on the outskirts of Lviv at dawn were the closest attack, to date, to the center of the city, which has become a crossroads between those fleeing from other parts of the country and those who they enter Ukrainian soil to distribute aid or fight.

Black smoke lingered for hours after the explosions, which hit a military aircraft repair facility near the city's international airport, four miles (six kilometers) from downtown, the AP news agency reported.

One person was injured, according to the head of the regional government, Maksym Kozytskyy.

Ukrainian soldiers moving a container walk past a warehouse fire following a shelling, outside kyiv, Ukraine, on March 17, 2022.Vadim Ghirda/AP

The Russian morning offensive also shook a residential building in the Podil neighborhood of kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, killing at least one person, according to emergency services, which noted that another 98 people were evacuated from the building.

The capital's mayor, Vitali Klitschko, reported that another 19 people were injured.

Two other people were killed in attacks on residential and administrative buildings in Kramatorsk, an eastern city, according to the region's governor, Pavlo Kyrylenko.

An American was killed by Russian forces while queuing to buy bread in the northern city of Chernihiv, according to his family.

At least 53 civilian residents were killed by Russian bombs and shells in the city on Wednesday, Ukrainian UN Ambassador Sergiy Kyslytsya told a UN Security Council meeting.

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Warning to China

Meanwhile, US President Joe Biden is scheduled to talk this Friday morning with Chinese President Xi Jinping about the European conflict.

US officials have repeatedly expressed concern that China may come to the aid of Russia, which is increasingly isolated from world markets following a succession of Western sanctions that have severely damaged the country's financial waterline. causing a sharp fall in the ruble and the exit of multiple international companies such as Ford, McDonald's or Coca-Cola.

Thousands of homes without heating

More than 273,000 homes do not have gas or heating in Ukraine due to the bombing that the Russian Army has carried out on the country since it invaded it on February 24, official sources reported this Friday.

According to the head of the National Oil and Gas Company (NJSC) Naftogaz Ukraine, Yuriy Vitrenko, quoted by the Interfax-Ukraine agency, the lack of these supplies is making the humanitarian catastrophe the country is experiencing even greater.

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“Ukrainian families find themselves in a situation where they cannot get gas or heat, which pushes their lives beyond the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe,” Vitrenko said.

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More than three million people have fled Ukraine and around 13 million have been affected by the war in the country, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reported on Friday.

"The pace and scale of internal displacement and the exodus of refugees from Ukraine, as well as the resulting humanitarian needs, will only increase if the situation deteriorates," UNHCR spokesman Matthew Saltmarsh told a news conference in Geneva.

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NBC News

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AP

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Source: telemundo

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