War in Ukraine, live: Vladimir Putin calls for the “liberation” of Mariupol; Kyiv calls for an “emergency” evacuation corridor for the Azovstal steel mill

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• Fighting in eastern and southern Ukraine intensified on Wednesday. The last Ukrainian fighters of Mariupol, in Donbass are demanding “security guarantees” from the international community, while Russian forces intend to capture the entire besieged city where soldiers and civilians are blocked. “We are ready to leave Mariupol with the help of a third party,” armed, “to save the people entrusted to us,” said Sviatoslav Palamar, deputy commander of the Azov regiment, on Thursday morning.
• The governor of Luhansk said Russian forces now control 80% of the region, which is one of the two regions that make up Donbass in eastern Ukraine. Serhi Haidai said that after taking Kreminna, the Russians are now threatening the cities of Rubizhne and Popasna, and he urged all residents to evacuate immediately.
• “We will do everything we can to support you and ensure that Ukraine wins the war,” said the President of the Kyiv European Council, Karl Michael, came to meet President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. In particular, he promised sanctions would soon target Russian oil and gas exports.
• “Today I can confirm that the attitude of the West has become warmer,” said BFM-TV on Wednesday, Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the material aid brought to Ukraine “We are waiting for the delivery of weapons, we have preliminary dates and we have guarantees,” said the Ukrainian President.
• Moscow announced on Wednesday that it had successfully fired the first test shot Sarmat, its ICBM. The Pentagon responded, assuring that the shooting was a “routine” test and posed no “threat” to the United States or its allies.
• no evacuation corridor has not been implemented in Ukraine since Saturday due to a lack of agreement with the Russians.
• The Russian invasion has already advanced to Ukraine’s neighboring countries – starting with Poland – more than five million Ukrainiansa record since World War II.
• A Ukrainian official accused it on Wednesday International Committee of the Red Cross for failing to cooperate with his country on the fate of Ukrainian refugees and suspected of being an “accomplice” in “deportations” to Russia, charges firmly denied by the ICRC.

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