The first cease-fire attempted in Ukraine to evacuate desperate civilians collapsed Saturday amid ongoing shelling as Russian and Ukrainian officials traded blame and Moscow tightened its grip on the war-battered country's strategic seacoast.
Russian defense officials announced a a temporary cease-fire in two Ukrainian cities, Mariupol and Volnovakha, to allow civilians to evacuate, but a local official reported that shelling continued in his area Saturday despite the deal, a sign of the fragility of efforts to stop fighting across the country.
The U.N. human rights office says it has confirmed the deaths of 351 civilians in Ukraine since the Russian invasion began and 707 additional civilians injured, but it believes the numbers are significantly higher as they still work to confirm casualties. Here's a look at the latest developments in the war in Ukraine and the security crisis in Eastern Europe.
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