After nearly a week, Russia still has not achieved its goal of overthrowing the Ukrainian government.
Ukraine on Wednesday sharply increased its civilian death toll to more than 2,000 as it disputed Russia’s claim to occupy the port of Kherson. Russia reported its first casualty count, saying 498 soldiers have been killed so far.
Here are the 10 latest developments in this story:
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Russia said it had sent delegates to a second round of peace talks in Belarus that will take place on Thursday. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Russia must stop bombing if it wants to negotiate.
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Russia said it caught Khersona capital of the southern province of about 250,000 inhabitants, strategically located where the Dnieper River empties into the Black Sea.
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An adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy Oleksiy Arestovych denied that Kherson was completely under Russian control, saying: “The city has not fallen, our side continues to defend.”
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In Ukraine second largest city Kharkiv – that the Indians were told to evacuate at all costs by 6 p.m. local time – an air strike on Wednesday morning collapsed the roof of a police building. Russian paratroopers landed in the city, sparking street clashes, Ukrainian forces said. Authorities say 21 people have been killed by shelling and air raids on the city in the past 24 hours, and four more on Wednesday morning.
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Also to the south, Russia bombarded the port of Mariupol, which it said had encircled the entire Sea of Azov. The mayor of the besieged city said Mariupol had suffered mass casualties after a night of intense air strikes. He did not give the full number of casualties but said it was not possible to evacuate the wounded.
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On the other two main fronts to the east and north, Russia has so far barely made much of its advance, with Ukraine’s two largest cities, Kyiv and Kharkiv, fending off day-to-day bombardment. the more intense.
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In Kyiv, the capital of 3 million people, where residents take shelter at night in the subway, Russia blew up the main TV tower near the Holocaust memorial on Tuesday, killing bystanders.
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President Zelenskiy, in his latest update on his country, said the attack proved the Russians “know nothing about Kyiv, about our history. But they all have orders to erase the calendar. our history, erase our country, erase us all.”
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Apple, Exxon, Boeing and others have been involved in an exodus of international companies from the Russian market that has left Moscow financially and diplomatically isolated since President Vladimir Putin ordered the strike. on February 24th.
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More than 2,000 civilians were killed in the Russian attack, which destroyed hospitals, kindergartens and homes, according to Ukraine’s emergency services. More than 900,000 Ukrainians have fled the country since the attack began, Europe’s fastest people movement in decades.
