Russia continues to bomb Ukraine
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Russian forces bombard ed areas around Kyiv and another city, Ukrainian authorities
said Wednesday, just hours after Moscow pledged to scale back military operations in those places to help negotiations along.
The shelling - and intensified Russian attacks on other parts of the country - tempered optimism about any progress in the talks aimed at ending the punishing war.
In announcing plans on Tuesday to de-escalate near the capital and the northern city of Chernihiv to "increase mutual trust," Russia's military did not spell out what it planned to do, and the move was met with deep suspicion from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the West.
Soon after, Ukrainian officials said Russian shelling hit homes, stores, libraries and other civilian sites in Chernihiv and on the outskirts of Kyiv Russian troops also stepped up their attacks around the eastern city of Izyum and the eastern Donetsk region, after redeploying some units from other areas, the Ukrainian side said
Five weeks into the invasion, the number of Ukrainians fleeing the country topped a stagger. ing 4 million, according to the UN.
'Shelling will end when Mariupol surrenders'
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin has told his French counterpart the shelling of the besieged city will only end when Ukrainian troops surrender, the Kremlin said in a statement. But French officials said the Russian leader had agreed to consider plans to evacuate civilians from the city Officials from France's Elysee palace called the situation in the city "catastrophic" and added that "civilian populations must be protected and must leave the city if they wish to. They must have access to food aid, water and the medicines they need." France, along with Turkey, Greece and several humanitarian groups, have presented Putin with a plan to evacuate the city. Officials said Putin told Emmanuel Macron that he will "think about" the proposal
Kyiv reports More Russian attacks in north
The governor of Ukraine's northern Chernihiv region says Russian attacks continued overnight despite Moscow saying it would reduce military activity in the area. Viacheslav Chaus said in a video message on social media that houses and infrastructure including libraries and shopping centres had been damaged in the cities of Chernihiv and Nizhyn.Chaus didn't say if anyone had been killed or injured.of Russia's statement that it would cut back its military activity, he said: "Do we believe that? Of course not." During talks in Istanbul on Tuesday, Russian Deputy Defense Minister Alexander Fomin said Moscow would cut back military activity in the direction of Kyiv and Chernihiv to "increase mutual trust and create conditions for further negotiations."
Death toll in Mykolaiv reaches 14
KYIV: Ukraine's state agency for emergencies says that the death toll in a Russian strike on the regional administration building in the southern city of Mykolaiv has risen to 14. Ukrainian authorities say Russian forces blasted a gaping hole in a nine-story government building in a strike on Tuesday morning. The regional governor has charged that they waited for people to go to work before striking it. The emergencies agency said that rescuers removed one more body from the rubble and another person died.
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