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Evacuees from Azovstal steelworks arrive in Zaporizhzhia, while Russia continued attacks on the plant where 200 civilians remain trapped.

Pope Francis has said he requested a meeting Putin overUkraineand compared the scale of the bloodshed to Rwanda’s genocide. Putin alsosigned a decree on retaliatory economic sanctions against the west. A proposal to phase in a prohibition on Russian oil imports will be discussed by member state ambassadors in Brussels on Wednesday, with the most dependent, such as Slovakia and Hungary, seeking exemptions. Russian attacks in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region killed 21 civilians and injured 27 on Tuesday, according to the regional governor. US president Joe Biden visited a factory in Troy, Alabama, where arms manufacturer Lockheed Martin makes anti-tank Javelin missiles. Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskiy confirmed 156 people who weresuccessfully evacuated from the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupolarrived in Zaporizhzhia on Tuesday. “Today 156 people arrived in Zaporizhzhia. Women and children.

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They are not supposed to be sent to fight outside Russia—when the government said six weeks ago that some conscripts had been captured in Ukraine, it was an embarrassing admission. Politically, it would make it even harder for Putin to back down without losing face. When President Vladimir Putin announced the invasion of Ukraine on February 24, he did not declare war. As U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price put it in the CNN article, a Russian declaration of war aimed at "surging conscripts" would ironically "be tantamount to revealing to the world that their war effort is failing, that they are floundering in their military campaign and military objectives." These structures provide an international legal framework for waging war, which can only legitimately occur either in self-defense or through collective action by the Security Council. But in practical terms, a declaration of war would also allow the Kremlin to boost its manpower on the ground in Ukraine.

The successful evacuation comes as Russian forces launch a renewed attack on the Azovstal plant, where hundreds of civilians have been sheltering with the ...

She said that after a week, none of the refugees there “are even close to the end of the program.” “These figures are not final, “ the office said in an online statement. In the next 10 days the government will also need to define “additional criteria” for classifying transactions that could be subject to restrictions. A senior U.S. official warned that Russia is planning to annex much of the country’s east later this month. Ukraine has warned of Russian groups, some posing as Ukrainian soldiers, trying to disrupt military efforts since the conflict began. The Azov Battalion is a volunteer force with neo-Nazi roots that is widely considered one of the country’s most capable units. It has been under renewed attack from the Russian military, with Ukrainian forces saying a "powerful assault" was underway. The rest were empty, said Maidenyuk, 40, the mother of Vova Maidenyuk, 14. Concerns about the war’s decreasing the availability of food and increasing prices have sparked fears of increasing hunger and starvation in other countries. The camp has been open only a week, and 50 to 100 people are arriving every day. "We will continue to do everything possible to get all of our people from Mariupol, from Azovstal," he said on Telegram. "It is difficult. It comes as Russian forces launch a renewed attack on the Azovstal plant, where hundreds of civilians have been sheltering for weeks with Mariupol's last Ukrainian defenders.