Russian airstrikes crashed into three hospitals in Ukraine on Wednesday, including two west of the capital and maternity hospital in the port city of Mariupol which injured 17 people and that Ukrainian officials marked the “war of war” and “cruelty”.
The attack came in the midst of hope for the mass evacuation of civilians from several Ukrainian cities which were surrounded, including Mariupol, who had been without food, water and energy for days and who began burying the body in bulk graves because the body was full.
In almost two weeks since Russia invaded Ukraine, around 2 million people have escaped from the country, almost half of them, according to officials U.
Meanwhile, the concern rises over the safety of the Chernobyl nuclear factory which was disabled, which was aired by Russian troops at the beginning of the invasion and who lost strength and had to return to the backup generator. And by feeding the Ukrainian population becomes increasingly alarming, the government prohibits important wheat exports to the supply of global food in an effort to prevent food shortages in the country.
Civil evacuation is expected in a number of regions, including from the northeastern border city of Sumy, who saw 5,000 people evacuated safely on Tuesday. Nearly two dozen buses carrying help to the city are expected to return with the evacuated population, Ukrainian officials said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelskyy said efforts were made Wednesday to evacuate around 18,000 people from contested cities in the Kyiv region to the capital itself. Speaking in Russian, he appealed to the Russian army to save themselves and “just go home.”
Other routes may be open from Mariupol, Enerhodar in the south, Volnovakha in the Southeast and Izyum in the East during a 12-hour ceasefire Wednesday. Civilians will be led to places in Ukraine controlled by the government.
WHAT HAS THE AP DIRECTLY WITNESSED OR CONFIRMED?
In the AP video a series of air at the maternity hospital, a roar bang was followed by a broken glass and the car alarm was lost because the smoke rose from outside the nearest building. Outside the Mariupol number 3 hospital, a woman who holds a small child crying out of control while a Ukrainian warrior decades another woman’s head.
Rescue workers evacuated injured down the stairs, including a woman who looked pregnant. His face was pale and he grabbed his stomach before he was loaded into an ambulance waiting. There is a massive crater on the hospital yard and debris everywhere.
Volodymir Nikulin, a regional police official, called it “war crimes without justification.”
Zelskyy tweeted that there are “people, children under the rubble.” He called the strike “cruelty.” Pavlo Kirilenko, regional government officials, said 17 people were injured, even though rescuers were still looking for other victims.
Workers at Mariupol on Wednesday continued in a hurry and stole civilians and soldiers who died in bulk graves were excavated in the cemetery in the heart of the city.
With Morgues overflowing and the corpse was not shaken at home, city officials decided they couldn’t wait to hold individual funerals. Forty bodies were placed in Tuesday’s cemetery and at least 30 again placed there Wednesday, although the number rose so fast that the total became unclear.
Some are taken wrapped in carpets or plastic bags. Workers quickly make a cross after pushing the body to the public grave. There were no other family members or other mourners there to say goodbye.
At the funeral gate, a woman asked if her mother was among those buried in a ditch. He said he had left his body three days before outside the morgue, with a paper label stating his name attached. His mother was buried there, the workers told the woman, who refused to give her name.
Civilians from the northwestern cities, meanwhile, made the way to Kyiv on Wednesday through a humanitarian corridor, with firefighters and police helping people bring animals and their belongings on a small river on a small river.
WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING ON THE GROUND?
Russian aircraft on Wednesday night bombed Zhytomyr, while the artillery fire continued to pound the suburbs of Kyiv and Kharkiv, the second largest city in the country.
In Zhytomyr, a city of 260,000 West Kyiv, Russian air strikes hit two hospitals, including children’s hospitals, Mayor Serghomlyn said on Facebook. He said the number of victims was still determined.
“Oh, this is a hot night,” he said at the video address to the city residents. “Russia understands that it disappears strategically, but we have to survive.”
Russian artillery peeled by Kharkiv, destroyed the police headquarters, killing at least four people and injured 15 others, said Prosecutor representative of the Sernii Bolvinov Office on Facebook. He said 282 city residents, including six children, had been killed since the invasion began.
WHAT’S HAPPENING AT UKRAINIAN NUCLEAR PLANTS?
All Chernobyl nuclear factory facilities without power and diesel generators have fuel for 48 hours, the Ukrainian main grid operator said. The State Communication Agency said the power outage could put the system to cool nuclear material with risk. This site has been controlled by Russian forces since last week.
Ukrainian nuclear regulator said the remote data transmission of the monitoring system in Chernobyl was gone.
The u.n. Nuclear Watchdog said it did not see the critical impact on safety in Chernobyl because there might be “effective heat removal without the need for electricity supply” from used nuclear fuels on site. Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, Tweet on Wednesday that he will attend a meeting on Thursday in Turkey between Russian Foreign Minister and Ukraine in hopes of making progress on “urgent problems to ensure safety and security”. Ukrainian nuclear facilities.
Energy Minister Ukraine said the Ukrainian staff at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear generator, the largest in Europe, physically and emotionally run out. He said around 500 Russian soldiers and 50 heavy equipment were inside the station, which was confiscated by Russia last week.
WHAT ARE WESTERN COUNTRIES DOING TO HELP UKRAINE?
Western countries sent weapons and other assistance to Ukraine and had ratchet sanctions against Russia in the hope of convincing Russian President Vladimir Putin to retreat.
The Pentagon on Wednesday slams the door on the plan to provide MIG’s combat jet to Ukraine, even through the second country, calling it a “high-risk” business that will not significantly change the effectiveness of the Ukrainian air force. Poland said it was ready to submit a MIG-29 aircraft to NATO which could then be sent to Ukraine, but the Press Secretary of the Pentagon John Kirby said intelligence A.S. concluded that it could trigger the Russian reaction “significant”.
Cyprus said he sent his first batch of 165-ton humanitarian aid to Poland for distribution in Ukraine, including food, sleeping bags, tents, shoes and other items.
And donations poured into collection centers in Paris for Ukrainians, including baby food and other assistance.
“They struggle for us, they struggle for our freedom. We just have to stop Putin and we have to help them,” said Donor Claude de Mol, 60, a German-Belgian woman who came to give medicine and gloves.
WHAT’S THE VIEW FROM INSIDE RUSSIA?
Russia has taken action against independent reporting and blocking access to Russian-language journalism with several foreign news outlets. Protests scattered against war continued in this country, but people in Russia lost the source of information about what had happened.
The A.S. Prohibit all Russian oil imports, even if it means increasing costs for Americans, especially at the gas station. While A.S. And British Bans in Russia Oi L has increased the pressure on Europe to follow, continental dependence on Russia for energy making the embargo soon more difficult.
Heineken, Universal and Discovery music joined other large companies such as McDonald’s, Starbucks, Coca-Cola, Pepsico and General Electric in suspending business in Russia.
Amazon said it suspended the delivery of goods sold on its website to customers in Russia and Belarus and except for new third-party sellers from these countries. He also said the cloud computing network, the Amazon web service, will stop allowing new registration from Russia and Belarus.