Residents of Ukraine's besieged southeastern coast awaited possible evacuation Sunday as the country's president said Russia's obsession with capturing a key port city had left it weakened and created opportunities for his military.
Posted: Apr 03, 2022 1:29 AM ET | Last Updated: 6 hours agoTwo loud explosions were heard in Odesa on the Black Sea early Sunday and black smoke was seen rising above the city. There was no official information about what caused the explosions in Ukraine's largest port where its navy is headquartered.
"Ukraine has gained invaluable time, time that is allowing us to foil the enemy's tactics and weaken its capabilities," President Volodymyr Zelensky said late Saturday.Inside Mariupol, though, surrounded by Russian forces for more than a month and brutalized by some of the war's worst attacks, conditions remain dire and prospects for escape uncertain.
"I have only one question: Why?" she said of her city's ordeal. "Our normal life was destroyed. And we lost everything. I don't have any job, I can't find my son." Though the geography of the battlefield morphed, little changed for many Ukrainians more than five weeks into a war that has sent more than four million people fleeing the country as refugees.DurationOnly about 3,000 residents were able to escape Mariupol in the latest attempt to establish a humanitarian corridor out of the Ukrainian city that has been besieged by Russian forces for weeks.
Inside the compound, the Mriya, one of the biggest planes ever built, lay wrecked underneath a hangar pockmarked with holes from the February attack.
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