BAccording to the authorities, several people have been killed or injured in new airstrikes on cities in Ukraine. In the city of Malyn in the Zhytomyr region, three adults and two children died when bombs destroyed seven houses, according to civil defense on Wednesday night. At least one person died in Ochtyrka near Sumy and 14 people were injured. The Russian army shelled the town’s civilian infrastructure for two hours, said the head of the regional administration, Dmytro Shyvytskyi. The information is not independently verifiable.
According to civil defense, two people died near the city of Kharkiv, including a seven-year-old child, when a projectile hit a residential building. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 170 civilians have been killed in fighting in Kharkiv, including five children, a spokesman for the Unian agency said. Russia insists the troops are not attacking civilian targets, only military ones. According to Mayor Serhiy Sukhomlyn, air strikes destroyed a mineral wool plant near the town of Zhytomyr.
Thousands flee Sumy
According to Ukrainian information, numerous civilians were able to leave the region of the city of Sumy via the escape corridor agreed with the Russian army. Around 5,000 Ukrainians and around 1,700 foreign students were taken to a safer place on Tuesday, Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said, according to the Unian agency. The escape routes led, for example, to Poltava, to Lviv or to neighboring EU countries.
Sumy is the first of five selected cities where an escape corridor worked. The city is about 30 kilometers from the Russian border. Russian troops have been attacking Sumy for days. Central Ukrainian Poltava is about 170 kilometers to the south and has so far been largely spared.
For the embattled Mariupol, Ukraine is demanding an escape corridor from Russia to Zaporizhia, said Wereshchuk. For days attempts have been made in vain to bring aid supplies to the port city. According to the Red Cross, 200,000 people are waiting in Mariupol to get out of the city. According to the International Committee of the Red Cross, the situation is catastrophic.
Ukraine ready to talk about neutrality of the country
The Ukrainian President Volodymir Zelenskyj is constantly making new appeals to the West to help his country. “The war must end,” Zelenskyy said in a video message released on Tuesday evening. “We have to sit down at the negotiating table.” According to his foreign policy adviser Ihor Zhovkva, Ukraine has not ruled out discussing the country’s possible neutrality in negotiations with Russia. The advisor called for a direct conversation between Selenskyj and Russian President Vladimir Putin in the ARD “Tagesthemen”.
Showkwa called on Germany “as the economic engine of the EU” to impose further sanctions. His country is asking for an embargo on Russian gas and oil. In addition, goods belonging to Russians should be confiscated. The Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba also urged on Facebook on Wednesday night: “Every sanction, every company that leaves Russia is a step closer to victory.”
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