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Ukraine says 100,000 civilians can’t escape Mariupol

Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said on Tuesday that at least 100,000 civilians wanted to flee Mariupol, in southern Ukraine, but could not due to a lack of safe corridors out of the besieged port city. .

She said the bombing by Russian forces was also preventing rescue workers from accessing the site of a bombed theater in Mariupol, where city officials say hundreds were sheltered underground when it was hit by an airstrike last week.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the city “is being reduced to ashes” but that it “will survive.” A Ukrainian official said the city is still under heavy Russian bombardment: “bombs fall every 10 minutes.”

The Russian Defense Ministry denies the bombing of the theater and claims that there was no movement of its aircraft over the city that day.

Russia also denies it is attacking civilian targets and says its actions are focused on military installations. The bombing of a shopping mall in the Kiev region, for example, was admitted by the Russians as an attack on a Ukrainian weapons and rocket depot.

Source: CNN Brasil

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