Authorities in Mariupol say it is not possible to enter the besieged Ukrainian city and that it is dangerous for people to try and leave it on their own.
"We don't see a real desire from the Russians ... to provide an opportunity for Mariupol residents to evacuate to territory controlled by Ukraine," Petro Andryushchenko, adviser the mayor of the city, said Friday on the messaging app Telegram.
The Mariupol city council on Friday said Russia's actions in Ukraine and in their bombed-out city amounted to genocide.WARSAW, Poland -- Ukraine's foreign minister says that now his country's government is back in control of the Chornobyl nuclear site, it will work with the UN atomic agency to determine what the occupying Russians did there and mitigate any danger.
Mariacristina Gribaudi, head of the Venice Civic Museums Foundation, said in a statement Friday that some 65,000 artworks and 2,000 sculptures have been placed in Lviv storerooms as a precaution, but the objects aren't adequately protected. Erdogan told reporters that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, with whom he spoke on Thursday, had a "positive outlook" toward such a meeting in Turkey and that Putin's attitude had been positive in the past.
"This approach was necessary in light of the fact that the National Bank of Ukraine had to suspend the exchange of hryvnia banknotes into foreign cash in order to protect Ukraine's limited foreign exchange reserves," the commission said. Rafael Mariano Grossi wrote on Twitter that the International Atomic Energy Agency "assistance and support" mission to Chornobyl "will be the first in a series of such nuclear safety and security missions to Ukraine."
If the proposal is passed by parliament, as expected, some 7.1 billion kroner will be spent on the refugees, police and the Norwegian immigration agency. Norway expects to receive 35,000 refugees this year. "The number of NATO members increased from 16 to 30, and they have moved eastward more than 1,000 kilometres to somewhere near the Russian border, pushing Russia to the wall step by step," Zhao said.
Dozens of busses that have been put together by Ukrainian authorities to take people out also have not started approaching the dividing line, he said Friday. The Europol teams are operating in Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Moldova and are planning to deploy to Romania, too. She added that "we are particularly aware of the crime challenges that may arise as a result of the migration flow." She did not elaborate.TOKYO -- Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi says he is heading to Poland later Friday to assess the need for the war-displaced Ukrainians in that country and assist those who seek refuge in Japan.
Ukrainian Ambassador to Japan Sergiy Korsunsky told reporters Friday that some 300 relatives of Ukrainian residents in Japan have been granted entry, and more arrivals are expected from next week.Roberta Metsola announced the trip to the Ukrainian capital city on her Twitter account late Thursday, posting a picture of her standing in front of a railcar.
"We're not just sending our prayers, we are sending our guns, we're sending our munitions, we're sending our humanitarian aid, we're sending all of this, our body armor, all of these things and we're going to be sending our armoured vehicles, our Bushmasters as well," Morrison said.Zelenskyy said "something prevented them from determining where their homeland was" and they "violated their military oath of allegiance to the Ukrainian people.
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