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- Theater accommodating “hundreds of civilians” including many children, suffered from a Russian airstrike in Mariupol. “The plane dropped a bomb on a building where hundreds of civilians were hiding. It is impossible to immediately determine the number of dead, because the bombing of residential areas continues, ”the mayor’s office wrote on Telegram, posting a photo of the theater, the central part of which was destroyed.
- Negotiations resumed on Wednesday. After the exchange began on Monday, the Ukrainian and Russian delegations met again to try to reach a compromise that would allow for a ceasefire, or at least a solid humanitarian corridor.
- President of Ukraine spoke via videoconference earlier in the day to elected officials of the US Congress. Volodymyr Zelenskiy has once again called for a no-fly zone over his country, a measure supported by a few elected members of Congress but which US President Joe Biden has so far rejected. Otherwise, the Ukrainian president requested aircraft and air defense systems.
- Joe Biden on Wednesday announced additional security assistance to Ukraine from $800 millionafter Mr. Zelensky’s speech before the US Congress.
- At dawn, several loud explosions thundered in the west of Kyiv.. A twelve-story building in the Shevchenkovsky district was damaged, but the report has not yet been filed, and the press has been banned from entering the city due to the second curfew since the beginning of the war.
- About 20,000 people were able to leave on Tuesday. Mariupol, A major port city in the southeast has been besieged by Russian troops using a humanitarian corridor, the Ukrainian president has said. In total, about 29,000 people were evacuated from several besieged Ukrainian cities on Tuesday, according to the same source.
- That prime ministers of Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovenia were in Kyiv to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and assure him of the “unconditional support” of the EU. Polish Deputy Prime Minister Yaroslav Kaczynski asked NATO to create a “peacekeeping mission” in Ukraine.
- About 3 million people left Ukraine since the start of the Russian army’s invasion of the country, a spokesman for the International Organization for Migration in Geneva said on Tuesday.
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