The US Department of Defense maintains that Moscow troops have already fired more than 900 missiles
kyiv, Kharkov and Dnipro were bombed on Tuesday. The Dnipro airport was completely destroyed, as the local authorities assured. “At night, the enemy attacked the Dnipro airport. There were two attacks, the runway and the landing strip. They were destroyed and the terminal was badly damaged. It was massive destruction,” the region’s governor, Valentin Reznitshenko, wrote on Telegram.
In Kharkiv, according to the Ukrainian Army, Russian troops “carried out an attempted assault that was repelled.” Meanwhile, the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian Parliament) approved this Tuesday to extend the martial law, decreed the day the war began, on February 24, for another 30 days, starting on March 26. In this way, it will be valid until April 25. The norm, presented on Monday to the Rada by President Volodímir Zelenski, received the vote in favor of 300 of the 450 deputies that the Chamber has.
Likewise, the mayor of kyiv, Vitali Klichkó, established a curfew in the capital for 36 hours in a row, starting this Tuesday afternoon and ending on Thursday morning. “Today is a difficult and dangerous day … I am asking the people of kyiv to prepare to be at home for two days,” Klichkó said in a statement.
Through a press release, the US Department of Defense maintains that, since the beginning of the war, Russian troops have fired “more than 900 missiles of various types and sizes.” “This is a continuous military effort to subdue population centers with increasing violence and using increasingly indiscriminate long-range fire,” the note highlights.
The punished port city of Mariúpol, in the Sea of Azov, besieged and where its inhabitants survive with all kinds of deficiencies, managed to organize this Tuesday a second exit of vehicles, approximately 2,000, through the humanitarian corridor, according to information from its City Council . There are another 2,000 cars ready to leave and on Monday 160 did. This corridor of salvation leads to Zaporizhia through Berdyansk.
The deputy secretary of the Ukrainian Presidential Administration, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, assured on Tuesday that some 150,000 people have managed to leave the surrounded and bombed cities in recent days. According to Tymoshenko, 26 humanitarian corridors were in operation in kyiv, Sumy, Kharkov, Zaporizhia and Mariupol.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) estimates that more than three million people have already fled from Ukraine to European countries due to the war. Its general director, Antonio Vitorino, stated that “there are three million lives torn away, three million women, children and vulnerable people separated from their loved ones.” The refugees are mainly women and children, since the male population remains in Ukraine to fight off the invading troops. UNICEF estimates that half, a million and a half, are children. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (Acnur) also provides figures of Ukrainians who have fled to Russia (about 142,000) and Belarus (1,200).
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