A Ukrainian woman refugee looks out of a vehicle’s window after arriving at a registration center for internally displaced people, amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine. - REUTERSpixFighting raged in the critical port city of Odessa and across Ukraine’s east as fresh evacuations of civilians from war-ravaged Mariupol were set to take place Tuesday.
Zelensky also slammed Lavrov’s remarks as “anti-Semitic”, and said they showed Russia had “forgotten all the lessons of World War II”. The city is now largely calm, AFP journalists saw on a recent press tour organised by Russian forces, apart from the muffled rumble of explosions coming from the direction of the Azovstal steel plant, the last holdout of Ukrainian forces in Mariupol.“We don’t live, we survive,“ said Irina, a 30-year-old video game designer wearing a grey sweatshirt, the little face of a Yorkshire Terrier sticking out from her backpack.
Ukraine and Russia have been coordinating civilian evacuations with United Nations agencies and the International Committee of the Red Cross. Ukraine’s defence ministry said Monday that its drones had sunk two Russian patrol boats near the Black Sea’s Snake Island, which became a symbol of Ukrainian resistance after soldiers there rebuffed Russian demands to surrender.The fresh onslaught came as the United States warned that Moscow was preparing imminently to annex both Lugansk and neighbouring Donetsk.
“Such sham referenda -- fabricated votes -- will not be considered legitimate, nor will any attempts to annex additional Ukrainian territory,“ Carpenter said.Western powers have levelled unprecedented sanctions against Russia over the war while delivering money and weapons to Ukraine, including a $33 billion arms and support package announced by US President Joe Biden last week.
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