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the context
- Russia launched a major offensive in eastern Ukraine on Monday, said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. “We can now say that Russian troops have started the battle for Donbass, for which they have been preparing for a long time,” he said in the evening.
- Russia continues to bomb many cities in the country. At least seven people were killed and 11 wounded in airstrikes on Lviv in the west of the country, and shelling on Kharkiv, the country’s second-biggest city in the north-east, killed at least three people on Monday, local authorities said.
- Mariupol City Council claimed Tuesday morning that the Azovstal metallurgical complex had been bombedand assured that “at least 1,000 are civilians, mostly women, children and the elderly[ai]ent in the factory’s underground ‘bunkers’. Russia is determined to take Mariupol, whose last defenders on Sunday ignored an ultimatum by the Russian army to lay down arms.
- No humanitarian corridor could be set up on Monday for the evacuation of civilians from combat zones in Ukraine, including Mariupol, the Ukrainian authorities announced the second day in a row, accusing Russia of “blocking”.
- Vladimir Poutine on monday awarded an honorary title for heroism to the 64th motorized rifle brigade, which Kyiv has accused of involvement in the abuses committed in boutcha.
- The Russian public television broadcast videos of on Monday two British prisonerswho claimed they were captured fighting in Ukraine and called on Prime Minister Boris Johnson to negotiate their release.
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