Russia-Ukraine live news: Thousands flee via evacuation corridors

Greater than 5,500 individuals evacuated from front-line cities through 9 humanitarian corridors says Ukraine’s deputy PM.

People help a woman to cross a destroyed bridge in the town of Irpin outside Kyiv, Ukraine.
Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk says 3,950 individuals had been evacuated from cities and cities within the Kyiv area on Sunday [Marko Djurica/Reuters]

  • Ukraine says greater than 5,500 individuals had been evacuated from front-line cities on Sunday.
  • Ukraine and Russia will maintain a brand new spherical of talks by video-conference on Monday, officers have stated.
  • The ICRC warns residents of Mariupol face a “worst-case state of affairs” except Russia and Ukraine attain an settlement to make sure humanitarian entry.
  • A US journalist has been killed close to Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv.

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Listed here are the newest updates:

17 minutes in the past (21:46 GMT)

Russian default now not ‘inconceivable’

Russia might default on its money owed within the wake of unprecedented sanctions over its invasion of Ukraine, however that may not set off a worldwide monetary disaster, Worldwide Financial Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva has stated.

Georgieva advised CBS’s “Face the Nation” programme that sanctions imposed by america and different democracies had been already having a “extreme” impression on the Russian economic system and would set off a deep recession there this yr.

The sanctions had been limiting Russia’s skill to entry its assets and repair its money owed, which meant a default was now not considered as “inconceivable,” the IMF official stated.

Requested if such a default may set off a monetary disaster around the globe, she stated, “For now, no.”


22 minutes in the past (21:41 GMT)

Zelenskyy urges software program giants to cease supporting their merchandise in Russia

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has known as on US software program companies Microsoft and Oracle and German enterprise software program group SAP to halt help providers for his or her merchandise in Russia.

“Cease supporting your merchandise in Russia, cease the warfare!,” he wrote on Twitter.


31 minutes in the past (21:31 GMT)

‘By no means heard of that’: China responds to reviews Russia sought navy assist

The spokesperson for China’s embassy in Washington has responded to media reviews that Moscow had requested Beijing for navy tools since launching its invasion of Ukraine by saying, “I’ve by no means heard of that.”

The spokesperson, Liu Pengyu, stated China’s precedence was to stop the tense scenario in Ukraine from getting uncontrolled.

“The present scenario in Ukraine is certainly disconcerting,” he stated in an emailed response to an inquiry from the information company Reuters.

“The excessive precedence now could be to stop the tense scenario from escalating and even getting uncontrolled.”


38 minutes in the past (21:25 GMT)

Ukraine, Russia to renew talks

Ukraine and Russia will maintain a brand new spherical of talks on Monday, officers have stated.

Talks would resume by video-conference, Mykhailo Podoliak, an adviser to Zelenskyy and a part of the negotiating workforce, has stated.

His assertion on Twitter confirmed an earlier assertion by Dmitry Peskov, the spokesman for the Russian presidency.


1 hour in the past (20:49 GMT)

Ukraine says hundreds evacuated from front-line cities

Ukraine was in a position to evacuate greater than 5,550 individuals from front-line cities on Sunday through 9 humanitarian corridors, Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk has stated.

She stated 3,950 individuals had been evacuated from cities and cities within the Kyiv area.


1 hour in the past (20:43 GMT)

Fatigued workers ‘cease safety-related repairs’ at Chernobyl

Workers working radioactive waste amenities on the Chernobyl nuclear plant have stopped finishing up safety-related repairs attributable to exhaustion, as they haven't been relieved since Russia seized the positioning final month, Ukraine has advised the UN nuclear watchdog.

“The Ukrainian regulator knowledgeable the IAEA that workers at [Chernobyl] had been now not finishing up restore and upkeep of safety-related tools, partly attributable to their bodily and psychological fatigue after working continuous for almost three weeks,” the Worldwide Atomic Power Company stated in an announcement.

A general view shows the New Safe Confinement (NSC) structure over the old sarcophagus covering the damaged fourth reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, in Chernobyl, Ukraine
Russian forces seized management of the Chernobyl nuclear energy plant in late February [File: Gleb Garanich/Reuters]


1 hour in the past (20:37 GMT)

ICRC points stark Mariupol warning

The Worldwide Committee of the Crimson Cross (ICRC) has warned that residents of the besieged port metropolis of Mariupol face a “a worst-case state of affairs”, except Russia and Ukraine attain an settlement to make sure their quick security and entry to humanitarian support.

Ukrainian authorities say town has been topic to relentless bombardment since Russian troops surrounded it on March 2. Learn the total story right here.

 


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Learn all of the updates from Sunday, March 13 right here.

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