Ukrainian soldiers run alongside the civilians to help them and then return to take cover behind a cinder block wall.īut Ukrainian authorities made no similar announcements and offered no immediate reaction to the Russian announcement. Since Saturday, hundreds of Ukrainians fleeing the fighting in three towns on Kyiv’s western rim have clustered around the bridge to make their way to the capital - which is also in Moscow’s cross hairs.Ĭivilians who cross the bridge into Kyiv form small groups and together run about 100 yards while potentially exposed to Russian fire. The attack at the bridge was witnessed by a New York Times team, including the photojournalist Lynsey Addario, a security adviser and Andriy Dubchak, a freelance journalist who filmed the scene. The soldiers there were not engaged in combat but in helping refugees carry their children and luggage toward the capital. He did so again on Sunday, a day after a railroad track used to evacuate Ukrainians came under fire.īut only a handful of Ukrainian troops were near the bridge when mortar shells began raining down. Putin, has repeatedly denied that his forces are targeting civilians fleeing battle zones. A mother and her two children lay still on the roadway, along with a family friend. When it settled, Ukrainians could be seen running madly from the scene. The Russian mortar hit just as they made it across into Kyiv.Ī cloud of concrete dust lofted into the morning air. Putin will not stop in Ukraine if he will not be stopped.” Show more “Otherwise, it will be too late here, Mr. “I must say that strengthening deterrence is no longer enough,” Mr. Nausėda said NATO needs to rethink its response plans and procedures against Russia, and said Moscow’s “reckless aggression against Ukraine once again proves that it is a long-term threat to European security, the security of our alliance.” Nausėda’s comments underscored the growing alarm among the Baltic States, which were under Soviet rule after World War II and joined NATO more than a decade after the fall of the Soviet Union, and worry that they could be a target of Russian aggression. The Ukrainian flags and blue-and-yellow banners flying from lampposts and balconies across Vilnius were a clear sign that Russia’s invasion was weighing heavily on the minds of Lithuanians. Blinken said at the start of meetings in the Lithuanian capital, the first stop of a two-day trip to the Baltics that will take him to Latvia later on Monday and to Estonia on Tuesday. “There should be no doubt about that on anyone’s minds,” Mr. “There is a risk that roads can be littered with unexploded ordinance that might make safe passage more difficult,” Mr. Hospitals in Mariupol are running out of medicine and there is regular fighting in the city, forcing people who are increasingly desperate to take shelter. The International Committee of the Red Cross is in close contact with the parties to facilitate an agreement in Mariupol, but so far deals have not been “clear enough or solid enough,” said Martin Schüepp, the organization’s regional director for Europe and Central Asia. The government of President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine on Monday rejected a Russian proposal to allow civilians in areas where there is fighting to leave for Russia as a cynical ploy to distract from Russia’s failure to stop shelling “evacuation corridors” where civilians are trying to flee. It is also vital to agree to a destination where evacuated civilians feel safe, he said. Getting buy-in is key to making an agreement stick, not just from generals and political leaders, but also from local commanders who often see the opposite side as “bitter enemies,” Mr. “It could be someone believing that what they see is hostile.” “It takes only one spoiler for the whole agreement to fall apart and the safe passage to become violent and horrific,” Mr. Each side blamed the other for failing to observe the cease-fire. Cease-fire deals broke down on Saturday and Sunday, forcing civilians to abandon an effort to drive northwest to the city of Zaporizhzhia. He said similar dynamics appeared to be playing out in Ukraine. Egeland, who since 2013 has been Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council,a leading humanitarian organization helping people forced to flee conflicts. Mistrust between parties was the biggest problem in Syria, said Mr.
Residents are facing increasingly dire conditions in the city, which has been deprived of food, heat and electricity for days as Russian forces shell the town. Mariupol, across the country from Kyiv, is a key objective in the Russians’ effort to cut Ukraine off from the Sea of Azov and create a land bridge to Crimea.
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