The most ambitious effort yet to evacuate civilians from Ukraine’s devastated port of Mariupol, besieged by Russian forces for weeks, was upended by disruptions Friday, with thousands of residents managing to flee but many more still stuck after the Red Cross judged the exodus too dangerous. A team from the Red Cross that had been en route to Mariupol on Friday had to turn
Pope Francis has come the closest yet to implicitly criticising the Russian president over the invasion of Ukraine, saying a ""potentate"" an autocratic ruler was fomenting conflicts for nationalist interests.