Mar 23,2022: Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says talks between Kyiv and Moscow are confrontational, but moving forward.
Ukraine’s chief prosecutor says Russia’s siege of Mariupol amounts to “genocide”, with at least 100,000 civilians trapped in the port city without food or water.
Talks between Ukraine and Russia are confrontational but moving forward, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Wednesday, as authorities appealed to the Russians to allow tens of thousands of people to escape the besieged city of Mariupol amid a worsening humanitarian crisis.
Sustained Russian air attacks have turned Mariupol into the “ashes of a dead land”, the city council said on Tuesday.
Hundreds of thousands are believed to be trapped inside buildings, with no access to food, water, power or heat. Both civilians and Ukrainian troops have been coming under Russian fire in a port city that is normally home to about 400,000 people, according to the regional governor Pavlo Kyrylenko.
