Kirl Tymoshenko, an adviser to Ukrainian President Zhelensky, shared pictures of the expulsion of civilians from Sumi on Tuesday.

Sumi, a city in northeastern Ukraine, has been the site of heavy attacks in recent days, in which 18 civilians, including two children, were killed in nighttime air strikes.

Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko said on Tuesday that the humanitarian road from Sumi would allow residents and foreign students to evacuate from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.

– Chloe Taylor

According to Filippo Grande, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, two million people have fled Ukraine.

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Irfin’s mayor, Alexander Margushin, said on Tuesday that Russian troops had contacted him, threatening his life and demanding his surrender.

“Yesterday at 5:58 p.m. I received a message from an intruder that my life and health were in danger,” says Marcushin’s translation.

He added that the message contained a demand to “fully surrender Irfin”.

“I’m surprised these monsters still don’t understand – Irbin doesn’t give up, Irbin doesn’t sell, Irbin fights,” he said.

In recent days there has been fierce fighting in Irbine. On Sunday, President Volodymyr Zhelensky said Russian troops had opened fire on civilians trying to leave the city, killing a family of four. “How many families like this died in Ukraine, we will not forgive, we will not forget,” he said.

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The Russian army announced a new ceasefire in five Ukrainian cities on Tuesday, state media reported. But the exit route will lead to Russia.

Interfax news agency reported Citing Russia’s National Security Control Center, the evacuation of civilians will be carried out “from Kiev, Chernihiv, Sumi, Kharkiv, Mariupol to Russia”.

On Monday, Russia’s ceasefire plan to allow the evacuation of civilians was deemed “totally immoral” by Ukrainian authorities after revealing a planned evacuation route from Russia to Russia or Belarusian territory.

This comes after Russian troops suspended evacuation efforts over the weekend, claiming they were continuing to attack towns and their exits in violation of the ceasefire agreement.

At a press conference on Tuesday, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Irina Vareshchuk said Kiev had agreed an evacuation route from Sumi to the Ukrainian city of Poltava. He told reporters that the route had been agreed with Russia and the International Committee of the Red Cross.

“No other way is accepted,” he said, according to an NBC News translation. But he added: “We already have information that the Russian side is preparing to cross this sidewalk, and they are preparing to manipulate it in a way to get people in. [another] in direction. right

On Monday, a UN official said civilians should be able to leave the conflict zone “in the direction they choose”.

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A Ukrainian official said 18 people, including two children, were killed in a Russian air strike on the city of Sumi on Monday night.

Ukrainian Deputy Foreign Minister Anton Herashchenko said in a telegram on Tuesday that Russian pilots were “dropping new crimes against humanity on Sumi” by dropping bombs on residential buildings in Sumi.

Garbage disposal is still ongoing, he said. “But the truth about the deaths of 18 civilians has been established. Including two children.”

Herashchenko said the deaths were “on the conscience of European politicians … they have not made a decision to supply us with powerful anti-aircraft missiles or close the skies.”

Western countries and the NATO military alliance have rejected the establishment of a no-fly zone over Ukraine, arguing that shooting down a Russian plane could escalate the conflict and increase human suffering.

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In an intelligence update on Tuesday, Britain’s Ministry of Defense said since late February that “accusations of Ukraine developing nuclear or biological weapons are “serious”.

“This description is long overdue, but can now be expanded as part of a retrospective justification for Russia’s occupation of Ukraine.”

Russia began occupying Ukraine on February 24.

Last week, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba Called the Russian claim Ukraine’s development of nuclear weapons is an “illusion”.

“I deny this sick fake again,” he said on Twitter.

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In a statement on Monday, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Martin Griffiths said there were three immediate priorities in Ukraine: “We all need to reduce pain and suffering in real-time.”

First, military operations must remain focused on protecting civilians and civilian infrastructure from attack — including creating safe routes out of areas of severe hostilities “in their chosen direction.”

On Monday, Ukrainian officials accused Russia of allowing the deportation of civilians only to Russian or Belarusian territory, accusing the Ukrainian government of being “grossly immoral.”

Griffiths said in a statement it was important to deliver humanitarian aid safely to conflict zones. He said the United Nations wanted a system of “continuous communication” with Russia and Ukraine, as well as guarantees for the delivery of humanitarian aid.

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Kiev authorities say Russia’s progress has slowed as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine enters its 13th day.

According to officials of the Ukrainian Armed Forces In a message on Facebook On Tuesday it was written: “The enemy is continuing the attack, but the pace of promotion of its troops has slowed considerably.”

As of 6 a.m. local time, defense operations continued across the country, including the city of Chernihiv, the capital Kiev and the southern coast of Ukraine.

Ukrainian officials said Russian troops were “increasingly violating the rules of international humanitarian law in military conflicts”.

In Kherson and Mykolaiv, where Ukraine claims Ukraine is currently occupied by Moscow forces, Ukrainian officials said Russia had formed a tactical committee “to carry out propaganda work with the local population”.

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Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak has warned that if the West decides to continue a full embargo on its energy exports, oil prices could rise to more than $300 a barrel.

“It is very clear that rejection of Russian oil will have disastrous consequences for world markets,” Novak told state television.

“Prices will be unpredictable if they don’t exceed $300 per barrel.”

International standard Brent crude futures It was up 3.5% Tuesday morning in London at $127.61 a barrel The Temporary Future of US West TexasThe S was trading 3% at $123.04.

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Former NATO Foreign Secretary Ross Cotemoller said there were signs that Russian President Vladimir Putin could maintain strong support in some parts of the country.

“There are many strong nationalists in Russia. Apparently yesterday they joined the motorcade outside the Kremlin, waving flags and supporting the president,” he told CNBC’s Squawk Box Asia on Tuesday.

Some polls show his popularity in Russia is still growing, he added.

On the other hand, those who know or are involved in “like the oligarchs who want to invest in the world and preserve their wealth” fear international sanctions will come under attack.

“I’m not surprised they’re getting more and more worried,” Cottemர்ller said.

“I don’t think he will lose his grip on power, but something is just starting to come to him,” he said.

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Ukrainian Security Intelligence Service Major General Vitaly Gerasimov of the Russian army was killed. And another senior Russian military official was “killed or injured” in the operation near the city of Kharkov.

Gerasimov identified by intelligence services Commander in Chief and First Deputy Commander of the 41st Armed Forces.

The agency, which said Gerasimov had been “disbanded,” said his record of his death near a city in northeastern Ukraine showed “significant communication problems” in the Russian military and “the expulsion of their defeated units.” see.

There is an audio file embedded in the file which is said to be an interception of communications between the Russians regarding Gerasimo’s death.

The assassination came just days after General Andrei Sukhovsky, another deputy commander of the 41st coalition, was shot dead by a Ukrainian sniper.

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