UKRAINE - The Russian army continues
to bomb urban areas in Ukraine, although the Ukrainian forces have recaptured a
city in the northwest, some 50 km from Sumi. To cut its losses, the Russians
are resorting to long-rage artillery fire. Mariupol, Kharkiv and Chernihiv are
still under siege and have suffered considerable losses. The city close to
Chernobyl, home to the staff working at the nuclear plant, has been captured by
the Russian army. Russia and Ukraine on Sunday agreed to create two
humanitarian corridors to evacuate the civilian population from the first
line of fire, also allowing the population of Mariupol to evacuate the city
using their private cars, Ukraine s Deputy Prime Minister Irina Vereshchuk
announced. The population of Mariupol and Rubezny will be evacuated towards
Zaporizhzhia and Bakhmut. According to the mayor of Mariupol, Vadym Boychenko,
50% of the city s population has been evacuated. Some 60,000 people fled via
the humanitarian corridor to o
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