explosions being heard in the borshchagovka district early this morning. there ll be more efforts to evacuate people from the besieged city of mariupol today. more than a,000 escaped yesterday. in the united states, a senior defence offical says the russian offensive is stalling, and that little progress was made over the weekend. negotiations between russian and ukrainian representatives are set to resume, via video link. and in moscow, a news editor has been arrested, after she appeared with a sign reading no war behind a newsreader on russian state controlled tv. abdujalil abdurasulov from the bbc world service has been to one of the scenes in kyiv. behind me as one of the residential buildings that was hit during overnight shelling. firefighters are still trying to put out the fire. there are a number of fire trucks
the international criminal court to help the investigation into possible war crimes committed in ukraine. the british deputy prime minister, dominic raab, visited the hague to discuss how countries can assist in bringing to justice the high ranking officials responsible for breaking the rules of war. 0ur correspondent in the hague, anna holligan, sent this report. terror inflicted upon a capital city. this apartment block in the obolon district of kyiv was hit by air strikes on monday morning. the uk was one of the record 41 countries that referred the invasion of ukraine to the international criminal court. the deputy prime minister came to offer his support. we are willing to look at any of the law enforcement measures and technical areas of expertise that we have got that the icc needs. it is an independent institution, it needs to tell it what they need to, they are doing that with other countries, but we are very clear, we will provide financial support, the technical support for
early this morning. a 35 hour curfew has been announced by kyiv s mayor, vitali klitschko. it will start tonight and last until thursday morning. in the beseiged port city mariupol, 2,000 cars have, so far, been able to leave today, although that much needed aid convoy is still stuck outside the city. negotiations between russia and ukraine resume today and the polish, czech and slovenian prime ministers are travelling to kyiv to meet with volodymyr zelensky. refugee numbers continue to rise almost three million have fled ukraine. unicef say that on average, 73,000 children are becoming refugees every day. in moscow, a news editor has been arrested after she appeared with a sign reading no war behind a newsreader on russian state controlled tv. the uk has enforced more sanctions on russia.
we re hearing that the polish, the czech and the slovenian prime ministers will meet the ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky, actually in kyiv, they will be travelling to a warzone. what more do we know about the visit, the purpose of it, and how this will work? yeah, we ve just had this announcement this morning, a press notice has gone up on the polish government website about this visit and what it says, as you say, is prime minister mateusz morawiecki will go, along with the prime minister of slovenia and the prime minister of the czech republic. as you say, going to kyiv a bit of a surprise, we didn t have advance status of this before. they are saying it s been organised in agreement with the president of the european council charles michel and the president of the commission ursula von der leyen, so it is something that they are saying the eu here in brussels, the heads here, the chiefs, knew about, and they are saying it is to confirm the unequivocal
terror inflicted upon a capital city. this apartment block in the obolon district of kyiv was hit by air strikes on monday morning. the uk was one of a record 41 countries that referred the invasion of ukraine to the international criminal court. the deputy prime minister came to offer his support. we are willing to look at any of the law enforcement measures and technical areas of expertise that we have got that the icc needs. it is an independent institution, it needs to tell it what they need to, they are doing that with other countries, but we are very clear, we will provide financial support, the technical support for the icc to do itsjob in ukraine. the presence of a high ranking uk minister here in the hague is highly symbolic and is a reflection of the intensification of the international efforts to try and ensure those accused of committing or ordering war crimes in ukraine eventually face justice. but two things to bear in mind russia is not a member of icc