Russian forces also continued their offensive in Mykolaiv, opening fire on the city some 300 miles south of Kyiv, according to Ukraine’s military. “There were two little kids and two elderly people living here. “What are they doing?” Vasyl Oksak, a rescue worker, asked of the Russian attackers. In the Irpin area, which has been cut off from electricity, water and heat for three days, witnesses saw at least three tanks and said Russian soldiers were seizing houses and cars.Ī few miles away, in the small town of Horenka, where shelling reduced one area to ashes and shards of glass, rescuers and residents picked through the ruins as chickens pecked around them. Klitschko reported in a Telegram video address that fierce battles continued in the Kyiv region, notably around Bucha, Hostomel, Vorzel and Irpin. “Immediately, everything started burning and falling apart.” When the floor collapsed beneath him, he crawled out through the third floor, past the bodies of some of his neighbors. “I think it struck the fourth floor under us,” Dmitry Sedorenko said from his Kharkiv hospital bed.
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In Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, heavy shelling slammed into apartment buildings. Ukrainian civilians receive weapons training, in the outskirts of Lviv. “Every house, every street, every checkpoint, we will fight to the death if necessary,” said Mayor Vitali Klitschko. Some barriers looked significant, with heavy concrete slabs and sandbags piled more than two stories high, while others appeared more haphazard, with hundreds of books used to weigh down stacks of tires. In the capital, Kyiv, soldiers and volunteers have built hundreds of checkpoints, often using sandbags, stacked tires and spiked cables. The lack of phone service left anxious citizens approaching strangers to ask if they knew relatives living in other parts of the city and whether they were safe. Hospitals in Mariupol are facing desperate shortages of antibiotics and painkillers, and doctors performed some emergency procedures without them.
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Police moved through the city, advising people to remain in shelters until they heard official messages broadcast over loudspeakers to evacuate. Stores have been looted as residents search for essential goods.
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The city is short on water, food and power, and cellphone networks are down. Ukrainian soldiers and militiamen carry a woman in a wheelchair as the artillery echoes nearby, while people flee Irpin on the outskirts of Kyiv. In one of the most desperate cities, the encircled southern port of Mariupol, an estimated 200,000 people were hoping to flee, and Red Cross officials waited to hear when a corridor would be established.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin’s forces continued to pummel cities with rockets, and fierce fighting raged in places. Russia’s top negotiator said he expects those corridors to start functioning Tuesday.īut that remained to be seen, given the failure of previous attempts to lead civilians to safety amid the biggest ground war in Europe since World War II. The humanitarian crisis in Ukraine deepened Monday as Russian forces intensified their shelling and food, water, heat and medicine grew increasingly scarce, in what the country condemned as a medieval-style siege by Moscow to batter it into submission.Ī third round of talks between the two sides ended with a top Ukrainian official saying there had been minor, unspecified progress toward establishing safe corridors that would allow civilians to escape the fighting. People holding their children struggle to get on a train to Lviv at the Kyiv station, Ukraine, Monday, March 7, 2022.