Kiev / Kharkiv / Lviv: The evacuation of civilians hiding in the Azovstel steel plant in Mariupol, a key city in Ukraine, has begun. Ordinary people, who have been living in squalor for ages, are still alive and well. The process of evacuating civilians from the steel plant has begun, UN spokesman Saviano Abreu said on Sunday. He said the process was being carried out in collaboration with Ukrainian and Russian officials as well as the International Committee of the Red Cross.
He commented that the situation was a bit complicated and could not say more than that. The steel plant is estimated to have about 1,000 civilians and 2,000 Ukrainian soldiers. Except for this steel plant, Mariupol has already been taken over by Russia. Russian troops have seized tens of thousands of tons of grain in their country, Ukraine's Deputy Minister of Agriculture Torres Vysotsky said. Russian forces launched a rocket attack on the airport in Odesa, Ukraine's largest city.
The Ukrainian military says most of the runway was destroyed. Ukrainian soldiers have found the bodies of three men buried in a forest near the town of Bucha on the outskirts of the capital Kiev. They are suspected of being tortured and shot dead by Russian soldiers. Russia is accused of beheading hundreds of civilians in Bucha. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview that talks between Ukraine and Russia were taking place almost daily. He said there did not appear to be much progress in these discussions.
- Local mayor Nikolai Khanatov says Russian soldiers opened fire on two buses sent to evacuate people from the eastern Ukrainian city of Popasna.
- US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has said that his diplomatic missions will soon return to Ukraine. He spoke with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba on Sunday. U.S. embassy staff in Ukraine fled home before the Russian offensive began in February.
- The British military says Putin's government has begun work to introduce the Russian currency, the ruble, in the Ukrainian city of Kherson. He said Russia had a plan to dominate politically and economically here in the long run. It is known that Russia occupied Kherson City.
Russia's oil depots were destroyed!
Satellite imagery shows that Russian oil depots were destroyed in the Ukraine counterattack. The Ukrainian army raided two depots along the two countries' borders last Monday. The rain of bombs poured down. Several oil tanks in Bryansk were damaged. Bryansk has located on Russian soil 100 km from the Ukrainian border. From here, crude oil was exported to European countries by pipeline.
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