Ukrainian officials say Russian forces hijacked an aid convoy bound for Mariupol, deepening the worst humanitarian crisis of the nearly monthlong war.
Ukraine accused Russian forces Wednesday of hijacking an aid mission near the besieged city of Mariupol, where one of the worst humanitarian crises of the war has unfolded amid scarce supplies of food and water and streets of buildings reduced to rubble from ceaseless shelling.
The Red Cross said that one of its convoys was unable to enter the city, but confirmation of the Ukrainian allegation of abductions was unavailable. As the capital, Kyiv, and other cities have resisted Russian advances — the Ukrainian military said Tuesday that it retook a strategically significant suburb west of Kyiv, and a temporary cease-fire was reported Wednesday in the Luhansk region of eastern Ukraine — Mariupol has become the site of what international observers have called one of the“Employees of the state emergency service and bus drivers have been taken captive,” Zelensky said.
Attacks and street fighting continued elsewhere in Ukraine on Wednesday, with a report from the Kyiv city administration that overnighthad hit a high-rise apartment building and homes in the Sviatoshynskyi and Shevchenkivskyi districts, west of the city center. Information on deaths or injuries was unknown.
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