This blog is closed. Live coverage will resume later.
An elderly woman who has been evacuated from the Lysychansk area cries moments before departing by train to western Ukraine from the Pokrovsk railway station.An elderly woman who has been evacuated from the Lysychansk area sit in an evacuation train in Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine.People board an evacuation train in Pokrovsk railway station, eastern Ukraine.
Mariupol has been placed into quarantine, he said earlier. “Nobody is let in or out.” He told the BBC that “there are a lot of dead” in the city, adding: The situation was being made worse by it now being summer and hot, with heavy rain ruining makeshift burial places as well as a lack of functioning water and sewage systems, he said.The resulting mix flows towards rivers and wells, where people draw and use it. This water is already poisoned. It has already propagated throughout the city. The occupation authorities bring water to the city, but not enough. People still go to the wells and take that poisoned water.
Australia Latest News, Australia Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Fears of deadly disease outbreak in devastated Ukrainian cityMayor Vadym Boichenko said the water supply had been contaminated by the bodies of people killed during the conflict and could lead to the deaths of thousands more Ukrainians.
Read more »
How would you separate these bowls? The question that grabbed the internetNew York-based artist Chi Nguyen, after many attempts to separate two bowls that had become stuck together, pleaded for help on social media. Who cares, right? Well, many, many people, apparently. Her post was retweeted 30,000 times in a day
Read more »
What you pay every day for defending AustraliaBallooning defence spending over the coming years will be a major challenge for the new federal government. 9News
Read more »
What you pay every day for defending AustraliaBallooning defence spending over the coming years will be a major challenge for the new federal government. 9News
Read more »
Saudi-paid defectors cop PGA Tour's wrathOn the day the rebel golfers hit the course for the controversial start-up, they were confronted by the reality of their unpopular decision. 9WWOS
Read more »
Energy licence could be revoked if retailers dump customersVictoria’s Essential Services Commission has written to retailers to warn them that urging customers to leave risks their state licence.
Read more »