The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said during a speech on Sunday that for the first time today began the vital corridor for the evacuation of civilians from the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol. Zelensky said for the first time that there had been two days of “real ceasefire” and added that more than 100 civilians had been evacuated from the factory. Earlier on Sunday, Ukrainian authorities, along with the UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross, confirmed that an effort was under way to evacuate civilians sheltered at the plant. The plant has been heavily bombed by Russia in recent weeks. Hundreds of people, including dozens injured, are believed to be inside the steel plant. Zelensky said the first deportees would arrive in Zaporizhia on Monday morning, where they would be met by the Ukrainian government. He added that the Ukrainian government would continue to evacuate people from Mariupol on Monday, starting at around 8 am local time. The evacuation of civilians from the besieged city of Mariupol in southern Ukraine has been suspended from Sunday night until Monday for “security reasons”, the Mariupol city council said in a post on Telegram. Evacuations will now begin at 8 p.m. local time (1 a.m. ET), near the Port City Mall in Mariupol, the post added. Here are some of the latest headlines from the Russia-Ukraine war:
Ukrainian Foreign Minister tells top EU diplomat that Russian oil embargo should be included in next sanctions: Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba has told top EU diplomat Josep Borrell that the embargo on Russian oil should be of the block. In a tweet on Sunday, Kuleba said he had spoken to the European Union’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy about “the next round of EU sanctions on Russia, which should include an oil embargo”. The foreign minister criticized the EU for failing to impose an embargo on Russian oil imports, saying in a NATO press conference in early April that “as long as the West continues to buy Russian gas and oil, it supports Ukraine with one hand while supporting the Russian war. machine with another hand “. Russia’s war in Ukraine causes ‘catastrophic impact’ on world food prices, says USAID Administrator: Samantha Power, director of the US Agency for International Development, said on Sunday that the effects of the war in Ukraine include global shortages and food prices, retaining “Our job is to see it globally” when asked if the global consequences reflect a global war looming. “It’s just another catastrophic result of Putin’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine,” Power told ABC’s “This Week.” This comes after US President Joe Biden pushed Congress on Thursday to consider providing Ukraine with an additional $ 33 billion aid package, with $ 3 billion available for humanitarian aid and food security funding. Ukraine’s ambassador to US says Pelosi’s visit to Kiev “symbolic” Ukraine looks forward to US Congress approving $ 33 billion in additional funding bill to support Ukraine in the coming months “We need all the help we can get in defense weapons, in military support, in financial support but also in humanitarian aid,” Markarova said in an interview with ABC “This Week”. “We look forward to having Congress approve it, and we’re counting on the United States to do that,” he said. On Saturday, Pelosi led the first official US congressional delegation to Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion. Ukraine’s attorney general says more than 9,000 war crimes cases are being investigated: Ukraine’s attorney general says his office is opening new cases of alleged war crimes by Russian forces, with a total of 9,158 “purely war crimes” criminal cases. Prosecutor Iryna Venedictova said: “We have already identified specific war criminals.” He added, “There are 15 people in the Kiev region, for example, 10 of them in Bukha. We hold them responsible for torture, rape and looting.” Ukrainian prosecutors have named ten Russian soldiers last week as suspects in various crimes in Bhutan.
