Russian forces renew bombardment of Mariupol and edge nearer to Kyiv, as diplomatic talks fail to make progress.
Talks between Ukraine’s and Russia’s international ministers didn’t convey a diplomatic breakthrough as tons of of 1000’s of civilians remained trapped in Ukrainian cities beneath Russian bombardment.
Russia renewed assaults on the southern port of Mariupol on Thursday, a day after a kids’s and maternity hospital within the metropolis was devastated and three individuals have been killed in what Ukraine stated was a Russian bombing. Russia has denied firing on civilian targets and claimed Ukraine staged the assault.
Russian navy items edged nearer to the capital Kyiv, the place half town’s inhabitants has now fled.
Russian forces are additionally trying to determine de facto management over hyperlinks between the japanese metropolis of Kharkiv and close by Izyum, and are attempting to advance north of Mykolaiv to chop the southern metropolis from its foremost provide traces.
General, Ukrainian forces continued to halt vital Russian battlefield good points.
Negotiations
Ukrainian International Minister Dmytro Kuleba stated no progress was made on attaining a ceasefire in Ukraine throughout talks along with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov on Thursday, within the first high-level talks between the 2 sides since Russia invaded on February 24.
The Russian international minister has stated that Russian President Vladimir Putin would “not refuse” a gathering with the Ukrainian chief Volodymyr Zelenskyy to debate “particular” points.
However Ukraine stated on Thursday that Moscow had refused to ensure humanitarian entry to rescue civilians trapped beneath bombardment in Mariupol.
Not less than among the humanitarian corridors in Ukraine established after lengthy negotiations and failures are nonetheless working, as greater than 2,000 individuals have been evacuated from Izyum over the last 24 hours.
Drone ambush
In the meantime, drone footage circulated on-line of an obvious Ukrainian ambush on a column of Russian tanks.
Bellingcat, a workforce of open-source investigators, stated that they had geolocated the video to a evenly inhabited space on the E95 street heading in direction of Kyiv – a direct path to the east of the capital the place Russian forces are attempting to mass.
This video of a Russian navy column coming beneath assault and retreating was geolocated to 50.587111, 30.837889 by @MrWolfih and confirmed by Bellingcat. Filmed in Brovary, northeast of Kyiv. https://t.co/fj8ukOgip0 pic.twitter.com/oc8dV4OOIR
— Bellingcat (@bellingcat) March 10, 2022
On a go to to Warsaw, US Vice President Kamala Harris stated the US and Poland are “united” over Ukraine after Washington rejected a proposal by Warsaw to switch its MiG-29 fighter jets to Kyiv by way of a US airbase in Germany.
She additionally stated US navy and humanitarian help to Ukraine is an “ongoing course of”.
Though Ukrainian forces have fiercely resisted the extra highly effective Russian navy, Kyiv says it lacks weapons resembling missile defence programs and anti-tank missiles.
