Pres. Biden excoriates Russian Pres. Putin's reasoning for invading Ukraine: 'Russia has strangled democracy and sought to do so elsewhere... and Putin has the audacity, like all other autocrats before him, to believe that might will make right.'
Link"Continuous battles" for Mariupol's territory continue daily, the city's deputy mayor, Serhiy Orlov, told ABC News Saturday.Local residents sit on a bench near a destroyed apartment building in the besieged southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine on March 25, 2022.He was unable to give an update on the hundreds of of civilians believed to have been killed in Russian strikes that hit a theater that was being used as a shelter.
The mayor added:"The lack of water, electricity, heat and sanitary system, lack of medicine, food. So they're just surviving … it's not a secret that from 50 to 100 airstrikes, the Russian aircraft do each day and the one-third or one-half of all the bombing of airstrikes in Ukraine goes on Mariupol."Share to TwitterTwo missile strikes in Lviv left five people injured on Saturday, according to preliminary data, the governor of Lviv, Maksym Kozytskyi, said in a statement.
The official could not confirm reports that there was an impact on a residential building or other infrastructure facilities. Biden was greeted by Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski and Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki outside the PGE Narodowy Stadium and he met several volunteers and refugees.
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