Ukraine Evacuation Efforts Fail Again as Russia Presses Demands
- Ceasefire in Mariupol in south collapses as fighting resumes
- Doctors Without Borders see possible disaster in the port city
Ukrainians who have made the journey to the border in Kroscienko, Poland.
Photographer: Enrico Mattia Del Punta/NurPhoto/Getty Images
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Efforts failed for a second day to halt Russia’s siege of the southern Ukrainian port city of Mariupol to allow the evacuation of tens of thousands as President Vladimir Putin pressed ahead with the invasion and demand for the country’s “demilitarization.”
Russian troops violated a temporary cease-fire agreement, Anton Herashchenko, an adviser to Ukraine’s interior minister, said on his Telegram channel. There’s been no comment so far from the Russian military on the latest status of the arrangements.