Most important news at a glance:
– According to Ukraine’s Air Force Command, the Russian military has increased its presence in Ukrainian airspace over the past 24 hours. In addition to numerous unmanned aerial vehicles, Russia also deploys fighter jets, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles, the staff statement said.
– The Russian armed forces have illegally taken 2,389 Ukrainian children from the eastern regions of Donetsk and Luganks to Russia. That is what the US embassy in Ukraine tweeted.
– Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky says that the city of Mariupol has been destroyed by weeks of bombing. “There is nothing left there. Only ruins,” the president said in a video address.
– The number of war refugees from Ukraine is now more than 3.5 million (3,528,346). That is what the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said. More than two million people fled through the border with EU country Poland.
– In the Netherlands, 392 million euros in Russian assets and transactions have now been frozen, Minister of Finance Sigrid Kaag reported to the House of Representatives.
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