Ukraine-Russian Crisis
{JUST IN} Putin Makes U-Turn On Ceasefire Agreement, Orders ‘Ruthless’ Attacks In Mariupol, Other Key Cities
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Ukraine’s deputy prime minister says that Putin and his forces have violated a ceasefire agreement and attacks are ongoing in the cities of Mariupol and Volnovakha.
- Earlier Saturday, Russia, and Ukraine had agreed to a temporary ceasefire in the two cities to enable civilians to leave safely. Mariupol City Council said that it had postponed its evacuation of residents as a result of continued shelling.
EKO HOT BLOG reports that Russia has continued its advance on Ukraine, with “ruthless attacks” in the key cities of Mariupol and Chernihiv as terrified citizens try to flee their burning homes.
Ukraine has said Russian soldiers are not observing an agreed temporary ceasefire to allow civilians in the cities of Mariupol and Volnovakha in southern Ukraine to flee, which was established earlier today.
But Russia’s military has launched hundreds of missiles and artillery attacks on cities and other sites across the country.
Ukrainian presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovich said battles involving airstrikes and artillery continued northwest of Kyiv.
In Kyiv, a vast Russian armoured column threatening the Ukrainian capital remains stalled on the outskirts.
Fighting has continued overnight in northern Ukraine while residential districts and civilian infrastructure is struck indiscriminately by Russian shells as the invasion enters its tenth day.
Footage shows the continued shelling of the country’s key cities including Kyiv and Mariupol, while a massive blast was caught on a TV camera in Irpin.
Following days of intense shelling, residents in the port city of Mariupol were left without power and water after Russian missiles struck critical infrastructure.
Mayor Vadym Boichenko said the city “came under enemy fire” by Russian forces in continuing “ruthless attacks”.
It is understood the city remains in Ukrainian hands, but British intelligence says it is “highly likely” Mariupol is surrounded by Russian forces, as well as the cities of Kharkiv, Chernihiv, and Sumy.
If the key port city were to fall, it would allow Moscow to create a land corridor between Crimea and the rebel-led regions of Luhansk and Donetsk.
Multiple staff members of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) reported dire conditions in Mariupol and are sheltering in the city with their families.
They said that the “shelling was harder and closer” overnight and that queues for water in the city are “huge” while pharmacies have run out of medicine.
Multiple supermarkets have been destroyed by missiles and the remaining items were taken by “people in desperate need”.
There is still no power, water, heating, and mobile connection in Mariupol, the MSF said, adding that no one heard about any evacuation yet.
In the south of Kyiv, a Russian airstrike on a residential area in Markhalivka killed seven people, including two children.
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