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Ukraine war live updates: 'Dangerous and difficult moment' for Kyiv as refugees hit 3 million
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By Euronews with AP, AFP
An elderly woman is helped by policemen after she was rescued by firefighters from inside her apartment after bombing in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 15, 2022.
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It's day 20 of Russia's war in Ukraine, which was launched by Vladimir Putin when Russian forces invaded Ukraine on 24 February.
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10:07
Latest developments:
- The number of refugees to flee Ukraine has now reached 3 million, says the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
- Kyiv's mayor has imposed a 35-hour curfew on the city calling it a "dangerous and difficult moment" for the capital, after two people were killed in a Tuesday morning bombing at an apartment building in the city.
- The Polish, Czech and Slovenia prime ministers are heading to Ukraine on Tuesday for talks, and to show "unequivocal support" from the EU.
- President Zelenskyy has used a new video message to urge Russian troops to surrender, telling them they "have a chance to live" if they stop fighting.
- Ukrainian and Russian negotiators are set to meet again on Tuesday via videoconference to continue talks to end the conflict. Monday's talks ended without an agreement, with negotiators saying they were taking a "technical pause" and planned to resume today.
- The Pentagon says nearly all of Russia's military offensives remain stalled and made little progress over the weekend. A senior US defence official said Russian troops were still about 15 kilometres from the centre of Kyiv.
15:17
'China should condemn Russia's invasion'
"China should join the rest of the world and strongly condemn the brutal invasion of Ukraine by Russia," said NATO secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg.
"China has an obligation as a member of the UN Security Council to uphold international law and Russia's invasion of Ukraine is a blatant violation [of international law]
"We call on them to condemn the invasion and not to support Russia."
Watch our live coverage of Stoltenberg's press conference, here.
14:59
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg set to speak
The secretary-general of the transatlantic military alliance Jens Stoltenberg is set to speak shortly after a meeting on the situation in Ukraine.
We'll be covering it live. You can watch here.
14:30
Thousands of vehicles leave Mariupol via 'humanitarian corridor'
An estimated 2,000 vehicles were able to leave the besieged southern Ukrainian city of Mariupol via a humanitarian corridor by early Tuesday afternoon according to local officials. However there was no specific count of the number of people able to get out in the convoy.
On Monday just 160 vehicles were able to leave the city, where hundreds of thousands of people lack food and water.
The humanitarian corridor connects Mariupol to Zaporozhye, via Berdiansk, along approximately 270km of road.
Located roughly 55km from the Russian border (and 85km from the separatist stronghold of Donetsk), Mariupol is the largest city still in the hands of the central government in the Donbass basin - an area which includes the breakaway regions of Donetsk and Lugansk.
13:08
EU praises 'brave moral stance' of Russian journalist
An EU spokesperson has praised the "brave moral stance" of a Russian journalist who made an on-air anti-war protest on Monday night on Russian state television.
He said the channel's CEO is one of Russia's "chief propagandists."
Watch the video clip below, and read more about the journalist who made the protest at our story here.
12:12
Curfew for Kyiv in 'dangerous and difficult moment'
The mayor of Kyiv has announced an extended 35-hour curfew from Tuesday evening, as the Ukrainian capital experiences a "dangerous and difficult moment."
Mayor Vitali Klitschko, a former world heavyweight boxing champion, made the announcement on Telegram after the city was bombed several times on Tuesday morning.
From 8pm local time on Tuesday evening all traffic will be banned in the city until 7am local time Thursday morning.
11:55
Ukraine refugee numbers hit 3 million
The number of people who have fled Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian military's invasion of the country has now reached 3 million, a spokesman for the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Tuesday in Geneva.
"We have now reached the 3 million mark in terms of population movements out of Ukraine," IOM spokesman Paul Dillon said at a regular UN press briefing.
Separately, the UN's refugee agency has the number at 2.95 million.
More than half of that number went first to Poland. Romania has so far taken nearly half a million and Moldova 337,000. Around 142,000 have headed to Russia and 1,200 to Belarus.
11:21
UK MoD: Kremlin might try to set up pro-Russian government in Kherson
Britain’s defence ministry says Russia may be planning to install a pro-Moscow government in Kherson, a Ukrainian city it has occupied, as it attempts to assert “political control” over areas of Ukraine.
The Ministry of Defence says Russia “may seek to stage a ‘referendum’ in Kherson in an attempt to legitimize the area as a ‘breakaway republic’ similar to Donetsk and Luhansk and Crimea.”
It says Russia has reportedly installed its own mayor in the southern city Melitopol following the alleged abduction of his predecessor on Friday, and the mayor of another city, Dniprorudne, has also reportedly been abducted by Russian forces.
11:16
Antopol TV tower death toll rises to 19
Local authorities say the number of people killed in a Russian rocket attack on a TV tower in western Ukraine has risen to 19.
The Rivne regional government posted on its Facebook page Tuesday that 19 people were killed and nine were injured in the strike on the TV tower in Antopol, a village outside the city of Rivne.
The village is only about 160 kilometres from the border of NATO member Poland and comes as Russia presses its invasion of Ukraine.
Initial casualty reports had put the death toll from Monday’s TV tower attack at nine.
10:54
EU sanctions against Russia expand to cover luxury goods
The European Union has expanded its already-long list of sanctions against Russia to heavily restrict the export of EU-made luxury goods towards the oil-rich country.
The luxury ban targets a vast catalogue of products worth over €300 that includes, among other articles, clothing, footwear, leather, fashion accessories, pearls, jewellery, gold, silversmith, diamonds, suitcases, handbags, purses, wallets, wigs,
skincare, perfumes, as well as works of art, antiques, cutlery, porcelain, china and fine pottery.
Caviar, truffles, champagne, wine, vermouth and cigars over €300 are also being banned, as well as luxury car brands like Mercedes, Porsche or Ferrari.
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