Joe Biden has defended his remark that Vladimir Putin 'should not remain in power', while Ukraine has warned the humanitarian situation in the besieged city of Mariupol is now 'catastrophic'.
If Mr Putin "continues on the course that he’s on, he’s going to become a pariah worldwide and who knows what he becomes at home in terms of support," Mr Biden said.
Russian attacks near Kyiv cut power to more than 80,000 homes, officials said, underscoring the peril facing the capital despite an apparent"The enemy is trying to break through the corridor around Kyiv and block transport routes," Ukraine's deputy defence minister Ganna Malyar said.Ukrainian soldiers stand next to debris from a Russian tank after recent fights in the town of Trostsyanets, some 400km east of capital Kyiv, Ukraine, on Monday, 28 March, 2022.
A UN treaty concluded in 1997 baned the use of anti-personnel mines, but neither Russia nor the United States signed, although Ukraine did. Unburied bodies line streets and residents cowering in basement shelters have been forced to eat snow to stay hydrated, local lawmaker Kateryna Sukhomlynova told AFP.
Russia has de-facto control over the southern peninsula of Crimea that it annexed in 2014, and the self-proclaimed republics of Donetsk and Lugansk in the eastern Donbas region. Firefighters work to extinguish a fire in a warehouse that was hit by Russian artillery shelling, in Kharkiv, northeast Ukraine, on 28 March 2022."There are Russian corpses all over the place," a Ukrainian soldier told AFP, who said more than two dozen soldiers dispatched to Ukraine by Moscow had been killed in the fight for the hamlet.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the first round of in-person talks since 10 March — due to open in Istanbul on Tuesday after near-daily video contacts — must bring peace "without delay".
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