UN warns 1000s of civilians are trapped in Sievierodonetsk with diminishing food, water, electricity, and sanitation, as Russian forces try to overrun city.
"There are food stocks, but they have not been resupplied for two weeks," Roman Vlasenko said via text message for CNN. “So stocks won t last long. If there is a humanitarian corridor, I believe people are ready to leave Azot." Read more and see images here.
In defiant review of Ukraine's resistance of Russian invasion, President Zelenskiy speaks of "great path we have covered" in "dealing with absolute evil".
Russian forces swarmed into the eastern Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk and pounded a zone where hundreds of civilians were sheltering, a Ukrainian official said on Monday—a scene that mirrored Moscow's brutal capture of Mariupol last month.
Ukraine has issued increasingly urgent calls for more Western weapons to help defend Sievierodonetsk, which Kyiv says could hold the key to the future course of the war.