Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said it is “unfair” that he is forced to repeatedly ask allied nations for security assistance when they have arms sitting in storage.
The number of refugees that have poured out of Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian invasion has now surpassed 5 million, the United Nations says.
Mariupol Mayor Vadym Boychenko on Wednesday urged the thousands of Ukrainians stuck inside the partially besieged city to immediately head to agreed evacuation routes while they still can.
An offer from Moscow this week for Ukrainian soldiers in Mariupol to lay down their arms in exchange for a safe evacuation out of the besieged city had no takers, a report says, with one Marine commander saying that “no one believes the Russians.”
Major Serhiy Volyna, the commander of a Ukrainian marine unit, made an urgent last-ditch plea for Ukrainian women and children, along with wounded marines, sheltering in the Azovstal Iron and Steel Works to be evacuated to a neutral third country as the Russian deadline to surrender Mariupol loomed Wednesday.
Russia rejected a temporary cease-fire in Ukraine that the United Nations secretary general requested for the purpose of civilian evacuation during the Eastern Orthodox Holy Week leading up to Easter. Russia's deputy UN ambassador said the cease-fire request was not sincere and would only provide time to arm Ukrainian soldiers.
China on Tuesday promised to increase its coordination with Russian “no matter” how it's standing in the international community has been affected by its illegal war in Ukraine.
The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank are set to meet in Washington to discuss the growing crisis over food insecurity amid Russia-Ukraine war.
Two Ukraine volunteers who say they spent three weeks in Russian captivity are now opening up about their harrowing experience, describing the beatings and conditions they allegedly suffered as like a “nightmare come to life”.
Russia on Tuesday claimed it had opened humanitarian corridors for soldiers who voluntarily surrendered from Mariupol’s Azovstal steel plant – a site of refuge and resistance for Ukrainian fighters.
Russia planned an invasion of Belarus after its contested 2020 election, the intelligence department of Ukraine's Ministry of Defense claimed, publishing newly unearthed documents.
Ukrainian officials said this week that roughly a third of all its infrastructure had been demolished by Russia’s invading forces as the war continues for the 54th day.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu is accusing the United States and other Western countries Tuesday of trying to “delay” the course of the war by sending weapons to Ukraine.