Russia-Ukraine war: Key things to know about the conflict: KPRC2
A smoke from shelling rises as a wreath of flowers is placed at a cemetery in Vasylkiv south west of Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, March 12, 2022. Russian forces appeared to make progress from northeast Ukraine in their slow fight to reach the capital, Kyiv, while tanks and artillery pounded places already under siege. Russian forces shelled the city's downtownUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia is bombing Mariupol “24 hours a day.
Ukraine. The country's chief prosecutor’s office says at least 79 children have been killed since the invasion began on Feb. 24.Russian shelling of this Ukrainian port city of 430,000 has been relentless, and the mayor's office says. Russian forces hammered the city's downtown on Saturday, as residents hid.
in Mariupol and was with a group of medical workers who came under sniper fire on Friday. Conditions at a local hospital there were deteriorating, electricity was reserved for operating tables and the hallways were lined with people with nowhere else to go.Anastasiya Erashova wept and trembled as she held a sleeping child. Shelling had just killed her other child as well as her brother’s child. “No one was able to save them," she said.
Some residents huddled in a pitch-dark basement for shelter, unsure where they could go and how they would get food if they left. Others were on the move, toting luggage across planks to get over a waterway where a bridge had been damaged. Armed men carried one older man on a stretcher.In the northeast, Russian forces were blockading Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, even as efforts have been made to create new humanitarian corridors around it and other urban centers.
Britain’s Defense Ministry said Russian ground forces that had been north of Kyiv for most of the war had edged to within 25 kilometers of the city center and spread out, likely to support an attempted encirclement.
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