Fire could be seen across the building, with reports of civilians going to a nearby hospital with serious injuries. Latest from Ukraine:
Around 13,000 people evacuated through humanitarian corridors
Russian shelling of the city has continued, thwarting attempts to bring in food and other aid for the city of 430,000 people. The city's exhausted-looking governor Viacheslav Chaus gave a video update in front of the ruins of the city's Ukraine Hotel ."But Ukraine itself still exists, and it will prevail."These are photos from today of war damage in the separatist-controlled town of Volnovakha in the Donetsk region of Ukraine.
So Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has tried to play mediator, flying to Moscow and Berlin for face-to-face talks with Vladimir Putin and Olaf Scholz respectively, in addition holding telephone conversations with the Ukrainian and Russian leaders. In the last few minutes, Russia's Interfax news agency has quoted the country's defence ministry as saying Ukraine"once again refused to open up humanitarian corridors to Russia".
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