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- Evacuation corridors have been operating – letting some civilians flee the embattled port city for another south-eastern town, Zaporizhzhia<\/li>\n
- But the regional governor was quoted by Reuters saying fewer buses than planned were able to reach people, and not many escapes were managed<\/li>\n
- Officials had been hoping to bring 6,000 people out on Wednesday. The news follows other scuppered efforts with humanitarian corridors<\/li>\n
- A deadline issued by Russia for the last Ukrainian forces in Mariupol to surrender passed at 11:00 GMT (12:00 BST), but there was no sign of the defenders laying down their weapons<\/li>\n
- There remains an intense focus on the Azovstal steelworks, which represents Ukraine’s last pocket of resistance there<\/li>\n
- Earlier, a marine commander defending the huge facility said his troops might have only hours left. He pleaded for help – but vowed he would not surrender<\/li>\n
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky later said around 1,000 civilians were sheltering at the plant<\/li>\n
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- The number of Ukrainians who’ve fled their country since the invasion has now exceeded five million, according to the UN<\/li>\n
- Russia says it’s test-launched a new intercontinental ballistic missile. President Vladimir Putin said it would provide food for thought for those who tried to threaten his country<\/li>\n
- The US called the test “routine” and said it had been notified in advance<\/li>\n
- Zelensky welcomed European Council President Charles Michel to Kyiv, saying that joining the EU was Ukraine’s “priority”<\/li>\n
- He was also quoted saying that he’d not seen or heard about a document that Russia claims to have sent regarding peace talks<\/li>\n
- Russian and Belarusian tennis players have been banned from the Wimbledon championships in London, starting in June – a move criticised by Russia and the ATP<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has called the conditions in Mariupol “truly horrific” as he called for all who can to flee the fighting through humanitarian corridors.<\/p>\n
He said that the world witnessed weeks ago the death and destruction in Bucha once the “receding Russian tide” had lifted.<\/p>\n
“We can only anticipate that.. this tide also, at some point, recedes from Mariupol, we are going to see far worse than what\u2019s possible to imagine.”<\/p>\n
He called for civilians to flee through humanitarian corridors that Ukraine has deemed safe, and called the decision to leave “very difficult” but necessary.<\/p>\n
“What gives pause is the fact that there have been agreements on humanitarian corridors established before that have fallen apart very, very quickly, if not immediately,” Blinken said.<\/p>\n
“Principally because the security has been violated by Russian forces. And so people leaving \u2013 believing they could do so safely and securely \u2013 were fired upon.”<\/p>\n
He noted that the US was helping Ukraine to assess the safety of the security corridors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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