© Reuters. Local residents walk past a building destroyed during the Ukraine-Russia conflict in the southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine April 3, 2022. REUTERS / Alexander Ermochenko
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(Reuters) – Ukraine says at least 39 people died and 87 were injured, many of them losing limbs, in a rocket attack on a train station crowded with women, children and the elderly. evacuate, amid the threat of a major Russian attack on the eastern part of the country.
As regional authorities sought to get civilians out of harm’s way, European Union leaders traveled to Kyiv to ask Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy for support and to assure Ukraine that there would be a way out. become an EU member.
THE FIGHT
* Russia has issued its gloomiest assessment ever of its invasion of Ukraine, describing the “tragedy” of the loss of troops and the economic impact of the sanctions.
* British military intelligence says Russian forces are shelling cities to the east and south and have advanced further south from the city of Izyum, which is under their control. Reuters could not immediately verify the report.
* The capture of Mariupol remains the main focus of Russian troops and Russian battalions are blockading and shelling the northeastern city of Kharkiv, the Ukrainian military said.
* The United States will send new weapons systems to Ukraine, after NATO foreign ministers agreed to speed up arms deliveries. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg warned of a war that could last months or even years.
* The Kremlin on Friday said Russia’s activities in Ukraine could end in the “near future” as its goals have been achieved and work is being done by both the Russian military and negotiators. Russian peace judge.
SITUATIONS WITH EVERYTHING
* The names of the dead are scrawled on the peeling wall of a school basement, where residents say more than 300 people have been trapped for weeks by Russian occupiers in Yahidne, a village to the south. north of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv.
* Zelenskiy said the situation in Borodyanka, a town northwest of Kyiv, is “significantly more dire” than in Bucha, where Ukraine and the West say Russian troops have killed civilians in equal numbers to crimes. war evil. He did not cite any evidence. Moscow denies targeting civilians.
HUMAN CRISIS
* Ukraine says it aims to establish up to 10 humanitarian corridors by Friday to evacuate at least 160,000 stranded civilians, but civilians trying to flee besieged Mariupol will have to use vehicles personal.
DIPLOMACY, ECONOMY
* The United Nations General Assembly voted to suspend Russia from participating in the United Nations Human Rights Council and expressed grave concern at the ongoing human rights and human rights crisis in Ukraine. Russia calls the action illegal.
* The European Union on Friday officially approved a fifth package of sanctions against Russia, which includes bans on imports of coal, wood, chemicals and other products.
* Britain added Vladimir Putin’s daughters to its sanctions list on Friday, mirroring moves by the United States, which it says are an attempt to target the lifestyles of its insiders. Russian President.
QUOTE
* “As soon as they started digging, there was a shelling,” Olha Meniaylo said, referring to the temporary burial of the victims in a village north of Kyiv. “The diggers had to lie on top of dead bodies in the graves to protect themselves from shelling. My husband was there.”
* “The whole world is uncomfortable. Do you think anyone should be comfortable with this crisis?” Zhang Jun, UN ambassador of Russia’s China strategic partner, in response to his US counterpart’s remarks.
