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"Bombs fall every ten minutes," a Ukrainian officer in Mariupol tells CNN
By Khrystyna Bondarenko, Ivan Watson, Anne Claire Stapleton
Mariupol came under heavy new shelling overnight, according to a Ukrainian official inside the city.
"Bombs fall every 10 minutes; Russian navy warships bomb. Yesterday soldiers disabled four tanks, [as well as] armored vehicles and troops. We still need ammunition, anti-tank weapons and air defense," Capt. Svyatoslav Palamar, from the Azov Regiment of the National Guard in Mariupol.
Palamar said that he and his fellow fighters will not give up in Mariupol.
10 mins ago
At least eight people killed in Russian attack on Kyiv shopping mall, prosecutor general says
By Andrew Carey
Aerial view of the completely destroyed shopping center after a Russian bombardment in Kyiv, Ukraine, on March 21.
(Photo: Emin Sansar/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
At least eight people were killed in a Russian attack on a shopping center in the Podilskyi district of the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, according to Ukraine's Prosecutor General.
A shopping mall and cars in an adjacent parking lot caught fire after Russian shelling in Kyiv's Podilskyi district, Ukraine's State Emergency Service said late on Sunday, adding that 63 firefighters worked to extinguish the flames that had broken out. reached the third and fourth floors of the mall.
"As a consequence of the enemy missile attack and resulting fire, a shopping center was destroyed, the windows of nearby residential buildings and vehicles parked nearby were damaged," the Attorney General said in a post on his Telegram channel. .
The Attorney General suggested that the death toll could rise, adding that the death toll was based on preliminary information.
11 mins ago
China to provide 1.57 million USD more in humanitarian aid to Ukraine
Humanitarian aid supplies sent by the Chinese Red Cross Society to the Ukrainian Red Cross Society are transported in Warsaw, Poland, on March 15.
(Chen Chen/Xinhua/Getty Images)
China will provide another batch of humanitarian aid, worth 10 million yuan ($1.57 million), to Ukraine "depending on the development of the situation and actual needs," the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Monday. .
"China will continue to play a constructive role in promoting the de-escalation of the situation in Ukraine and is willing to make its own efforts to overcome the humanitarian crisis," Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said during a regular briefing. .
China provided its first batch of humanitarian assistance, worth 5 million yuan ($790,000), to Ukraine earlier this month.
14 mins ago
Mariupol rejects Russia's demand to surrender after 5 am local time deadline
Civilians trapped in the city of Mariupol under Russian attacks are evacuated in groups under the control of pro-Russian separatists, through other cities, in Mariupol, Ukraine, on March 20, 2022. (Photo by Stringer/Anadolu Agency via GettyImages)
The Russian-issued deadline for Mariupol authorities to hand over the city has passed and the Ukrainians rejected the terms as a false option.
The port city of Mariupol, home to some 450,000 people before the war, has been under constant attack by Russian forces since early March with satellite images showing significant destruction of residential areas.
While the Russian ultimatum seemed to offer those who chose to surrender safe conduct out of the city, it offered no such guarantees to those who stayed behind.
Russia has repeatedly been accused of targeting civilians, with trapped residents describing the attack as "hell".
The Russian attacks have caused a total collapse of basic services, with residents unable to access gas, electricity or water.
Bodies are left on the street because there is no one left to collect them or because it is simply too dangerous to try.
A city official said people are afraid to leave their underground shelters even to get essentials, meaning they were trying to drink less water and eat less food, only going out to prepare hot meals.
Maternity hospital shelling, theater
: The city is increasingly bearing the brunt of Russia's fierce assault on the country, with shelling day and night, said Maj. Denis Prokopenko of the National Guard's Azov Regiment.
The assault included deadly attacks on a maternity ward and separate shelling of a theater and an art school where hundreds of people were sheltering, whose losses remain unknown as rescue operations continue.
The word "children" was written on two sides of the theater before it was bombed, according to satellite images.
Mariupol has been besieged for more than 16 days and withstanding between 50 and 200 Russian attacks daily
Trapped Civilians
: For weeks, Ukrainian authorities have accused Russian forces of blocking evacuation corridors that would allow residents to escape the city safely.
Advisor to the mayor of Mariupol, Petro Andrushenko, said on his Telegram channel on Sunday that Russian forces were shooting at people trying to flee the city in their cars.
The Ukrainian government said a relief convoy to the besieged city has been repeatedly blocked.
Held Against Their Will
: This Sunday, the Mariupol City Council said Russian forces are taking residents to Russia against their will.
The captured Mariupol residents were taken to camps where Russian forces checked their phones and documents, then redirected some of the residents to remote Russian towns, the council said.
Russia denied the allegations on Saturday.
Why Russia wants to control Mariupol:
The city is a strategic port located on a stretch of coastline connecting the eastern Donbas region with the Crimean peninsula, both of which have been under Russian control since 2014. Russian forces appear to be trying take full control of the area to create a land corridor between the two regions, squeezing Mariupol with brutal military force.
"It is impossible to find words that can describe the level of cruelty and cynicism with which the Russian occupiers are destroying the civilian population of the Ukrainian city by the sea. Women, children and the elderly remain in the sights of the enemy. These are peaceful people completely unarmed," the Mariupol city council said last week.
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