Russia Ukraine War: Ukraine’s foreign ministry said on Thursday that Russian forces dropped a powerful bomb on a theater in the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, where hundreds of civilians were taking refuge on Wednesday. The ministry said several people were trapped in the theater and accused Russia of committing war crimes. It said the number of casualties was not yet known.
In a series of tweets on Thursday, US President Joe Biden lambasted the Russian leadership and called Vladimir Putin a “war criminal” for “spreading horrific devastation and terror on Ukraine”.
Earlier officials, including Biden, had previously stopped saying war crimes were being committed in Ukraine, citing investigations into whether that term could be used.
Ukraine needs $565 billion
Ukraine needs $565 billion to rebuild after the war with Russia. Ukraine’s Prime Minister Denis Shyagal said on March 15 that this initial figure would be at the cost of compensation from Ukraine’s partners and Russia. The Ukrainian government has already set up a group to assess the damage to the economy caused by the Russian aggression.
Air strike warnings issued in many major cities
Sirens were fired in Cherkasy, Dnipro, Lviv, Kyiv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Odessa, Vinnitsia, Kirovohrad, and Khmelnitsky Oblasts, as well as in the cities of Kiev, Izium, Kremenchuk, Bila Tserkva, Nikopol, Mykolaiv, Kyiv, Izmail. CNN reports that loud explosions were heard in Kyiv’s suburbs, according to his team on the ground.
Every minute, 55 children of Ukraine are becoming refugees
“That means, almost every second since the start of the war, a Ukrainian child has become a refugee,” UNICEF wrote in a press release. In other words, an average of 75,000 children have become refugees every day since Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine began on February 24.
Russian soldiers used tear gas on Ukrainian civilians
Russian military dispersed Ukrainian demonstrators in the Russian-held city of Skadovsk on Wednesday as they protested the detention of the mayor and two other officials. A civilian said Russian troops detained Mayor Alexander Yakovlev, his deputy Alexander Grishenko and city council secretary Yuri Palukha on Wednesday morning, CNN reported.
Dozens of residents of the city of Black Sea Port gathered around noon outside the government building where all three were being held.
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Russian soldiers fired tear gas at demonstrators while civilians demonstrated peacefully.
Russian President Vladimir Putin in a televised address on Wednesday slammed pro-Western Russians as “national traitors”. The Putin administration has banned any dissent since the invasion of Ukraine.
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