Russia-Ukraine latest: Ukraine hopeful for 'good news' from Mariupol evacuation
Ukraine's government expects "good news" on the potential evacuation of civilians from the besieged city of Mariupol following an agreement between Russian and Ukrainian negotiators in talks, said an adviser to Ukraine's president said on Saturday. "I think that today or maybe tomorrow we will hear good news regarding the evacuation of the inhabitants of Mariupol," said Oleksiy Arestovych.
The southern city of Mariupol remains under siege and heavy shelling by Russian forces, despite an apparent pullback of troops in the north of the country near Kyiv. Ukraine also reported that it had stopped a missile strike that was targeting "critical infrastructure facilities" in the southern region around the port city of Odesa on Friday.
Ukraine expects 'good news' on Mariupol evacuation
Ukraine's government hopes the evacuation of civilians from the besieged city of Mariupol will proceed over the weekend, an adviser to President Volodymyr Zelesnskyy said on Saturday.
Oleksiy Arestovych told Ukrainian television that Ukraine-Russia peace talks in Istanbul had reached an agreement to provide safe passage from the city, which has been the scene of some of the worst fighting of the war. "I think that today or maybe tomorrow we will hear good news regarding the evacuation of the inhabitants of Mariupol," he said.
An attempt by the International Committee of the Red Cross to evacuate the city failed on Friday. The organisation sent a team to lead a convoy of vehicles out of the city, but said they couldn't due to the conditions, Reuters reported.
However, the Associated Press reported that at least 25 buses carrying civilians from Mariupol and Berdyansk arrived in the comparatively safe city of Zaporizhzhia on Friday night. Tens of thousands of civilians are still trapped inside the besieged city with little access to food and water. Much of Mariupol has been destroyed by repeated Russian shelling.
Russia pulls back from north as Red Cross pushes Mariupol rescue
Ukraine on Saturday said Russian forces were making a "rapid retreat" from northern areas around the capital Kyiv and the city of Chernigiv as the Red Cross prepared for a fresh evacuation effort from the besieged southern port of Mariupol.
Ukraine said Russian forces were concentrating in the east and south, a day after thousands of people from Mariupol and surrounding Russian-held areas escaped in a convoy of buses and private cars. "Russia is prioritising a different tactic: falling back on the east and south," Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhaylo Podolyak said on social media.
War to cause massive damage to Ukraine's economy
Ukraine's economy shrank 16% year-on-year in the first quarter of this year and could contract 40% in 2022 as a result of Russia's invasion, the Economy Ministry said on Saturday. "Areas in which remote work is impossible have suffered the most," it said.
Russian missiles strike Ukrainian cities, say local officials
Russian missiles hit two cities in central Ukraine early on Saturday, damaging infrastructure and residential buildings, the head of the Poltava region said.
"Poltava. A missile struck one of the infrastructure facilities overnight," Dmitry Lunin wrote in an online post. "Kremenchuk. Many attacks on the city in the morning."
Lunin later said at least four missiles hit two infrastructure objects in Poltava while, according to preliminary information, three enemy planes attacked the industrial facilities of Kremenchuk. Poltava city is the capital of the Poltava region, east of Kyiv, and Kremenchuk one of the area's major cities. There was no immediate information about casualties, Lunin said. Reuters could not immediately verify the report.
Russia denies attacking civilians in the war that Russian President Vladimir Putin launched on February 24, calling the biggest attack on a European state since World War Two a "special military operation".
In the Dnipro region in south-western Ukraine, missiles hit an infrastructure facility, wounding two people and causing significant damage, Valentyn Reznichenko, head of the region, said in an online post.
In the city of Kryvyi Rih a petrol station has been shelled, causing a fire, he added.
Zelenskyy says Ukraine will win war
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the war in his country would end “only with our victory". “A victory of truth means a victory of Ukraine and Ukrainians,” he told a US cable news anchor. Mr Zelenskyy spoke to Fox News's Bret Baier, telling him Ukraine was unwilling to surrender territory to Russia in negotiations between the two combatants, although he said the status of who controls Crimea could be put off until later negotiations.
Mr Zelenskyy repeated his plea for heavy weapons to battle Moscow. When he was asked if President Joe Biden wanted Ukraine to win, or fears Russian President Vladimir Putin’s reaction following a Russian loss, he said: “I have faith that President Biden, like any true American citizen, believes and wants the truth to win, and the truth is on the side of Ukraine.”
Hundreds of Ukrainians are camping in the border city of Tijuana, Mexico, hoping to seek asylum in the US, a dramatic increase in arrivals just days after the Biden administration said the US would accept up to 100,000 Ukrainians fleeing from war.
Many of the Ukrainians escaping the Russian invasion of their home country have flown to the US-Mexico border hoping officials will allow them in so they can reunite with US relatives or friends.
People are spread out on blankets and lawn chairs alongside overstuffed suitcases on a patch of grass near the international port of entry. Some are sleeping in tents and under tarpaulinss.
US volunteers in neon vests - some Ukrainian-Americans who travelled to Tijuana after hearing about the arriving refugees - are collecting names on a handwritten waiting list to keep track of arrivals.
While some 600 Ukrainians are camping near the border entry, about 500 more are staying in hotels in the city, said Enrique Lucero, Tijuana's migration affairs directo. About 40 per cent of the refugees were children, he said.
The southern city of Mariupol remains under siege and heavy shelling by Russian forces, despite an apparent pullback of troops in the north of the country near Kyiv. Ukraine also reported that it had stopped a missile strike that was targeting "critical infrastructure facilities" in the southern region around the port city of Odesa on Friday.
Ukraine expects 'good news' on Mariupol evacuation
Ukraine's government hopes the evacuation of civilians from the besieged city of Mariupol will proceed over the weekend, an adviser to President Volodymyr Zelesnskyy said on Saturday.
Oleksiy Arestovych told Ukrainian television that Ukraine-Russia peace talks in Istanbul had reached an agreement to provide safe passage from the city, which has been the scene of some of the worst fighting of the war. "I think that today or maybe tomorrow we will hear good news regarding the evacuation of the inhabitants of Mariupol," he said.
An attempt by the International Committee of the Red Cross to evacuate the city failed on Friday. The organisation sent a team to lead a convoy of vehicles out of the city, but said they couldn't due to the conditions, Reuters reported.
However, the Associated Press reported that at least 25 buses carrying civilians from Mariupol and Berdyansk arrived in the comparatively safe city of Zaporizhzhia on Friday night. Tens of thousands of civilians are still trapped inside the besieged city with little access to food and water. Much of Mariupol has been destroyed by repeated Russian shelling.
Russia pulls back from north as Red Cross pushes Mariupol rescue
Ukraine on Saturday said Russian forces were making a "rapid retreat" from northern areas around the capital Kyiv and the city of Chernigiv as the Red Cross prepared for a fresh evacuation effort from the besieged southern port of Mariupol.
Ukraine said Russian forces were concentrating in the east and south, a day after thousands of people from Mariupol and surrounding Russian-held areas escaped in a convoy of buses and private cars. "Russia is prioritising a different tactic: falling back on the east and south," Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhaylo Podolyak said on social media.
War to cause massive damage to Ukraine's economy
Ukraine's economy shrank 16% year-on-year in the first quarter of this year and could contract 40% in 2022 as a result of Russia's invasion, the Economy Ministry said on Saturday. "Areas in which remote work is impossible have suffered the most," it said.
Russian missiles strike Ukrainian cities, say local officials
Russian missiles hit two cities in central Ukraine early on Saturday, damaging infrastructure and residential buildings, the head of the Poltava region said.
"Poltava. A missile struck one of the infrastructure facilities overnight," Dmitry Lunin wrote in an online post. "Kremenchuk. Many attacks on the city in the morning."
Lunin later said at least four missiles hit two infrastructure objects in Poltava while, according to preliminary information, three enemy planes attacked the industrial facilities of Kremenchuk. Poltava city is the capital of the Poltava region, east of Kyiv, and Kremenchuk one of the area's major cities. There was no immediate information about casualties, Lunin said. Reuters could not immediately verify the report.
Russia denies attacking civilians in the war that Russian President Vladimir Putin launched on February 24, calling the biggest attack on a European state since World War Two a "special military operation".
In the Dnipro region in south-western Ukraine, missiles hit an infrastructure facility, wounding two people and causing significant damage, Valentyn Reznichenko, head of the region, said in an online post.
In the city of Kryvyi Rih a petrol station has been shelled, causing a fire, he added.
Zelenskyy says Ukraine will win war
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the war in his country would end “only with our victory". “A victory of truth means a victory of Ukraine and Ukrainians,” he told a US cable news anchor. Mr Zelenskyy spoke to Fox News's Bret Baier, telling him Ukraine was unwilling to surrender territory to Russia in negotiations between the two combatants, although he said the status of who controls Crimea could be put off until later negotiations.
Mr Zelenskyy repeated his plea for heavy weapons to battle Moscow. When he was asked if President Joe Biden wanted Ukraine to win, or fears Russian President Vladimir Putin’s reaction following a Russian loss, he said: “I have faith that President Biden, like any true American citizen, believes and wants the truth to win, and the truth is on the side of Ukraine.”
Hundreds of Ukrainians are camping in the border city of Tijuana, Mexico, hoping to seek asylum in the US, a dramatic increase in arrivals just days after the Biden administration said the US would accept up to 100,000 Ukrainians fleeing from war.
Many of the Ukrainians escaping the Russian invasion of their home country have flown to the US-Mexico border hoping officials will allow them in so they can reunite with US relatives or friends.
People are spread out on blankets and lawn chairs alongside overstuffed suitcases on a patch of grass near the international port of entry. Some are sleeping in tents and under tarpaulinss.
US volunteers in neon vests - some Ukrainian-Americans who travelled to Tijuana after hearing about the arriving refugees - are collecting names on a handwritten waiting list to keep track of arrivals.
While some 600 Ukrainians are camping near the border entry, about 500 more are staying in hotels in the city, said Enrique Lucero, Tijuana's migration affairs directo. About 40 per cent of the refugees were children, he said.
Source: www.thenationalnews.com
