A humanitarian tragedy is unfolding in Eastern Europe as more than a million people flee Ukraine
A woman sits inside a bus as evacuees from the city of Irpin arrive in Kyiv, Ukraine, on March 3 2022. Picture: REUTERS/MIKHAIL PALINCHAK
Baltic nation leaders called for the UN to broker a safe corridor for those fleeing the shelling. And with Russia’s campaign gaining pace in the south of the country, Nato warned of a “high risk of collateral damage on civilian shipping” in the northwest Black Sea, within and adjacent to Ukraine’s territorial waters. Hours later, the Estonian owner of a cargo ship said it had sunk near Odesa.
Russia will fulfil its objective of “demilitarisation, in the sense of destroying the weapons infrastructure that threatens us”, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters in Moscow. “Even if we sign a peace agreement, it will definitely have to include such a clause.” The extent of Moscow’s isolation was exposed late on Wednesday as the UN General Assembly voted 141 to 5 in favour of a measure urging Russia to immediately cease its aggression. Only North Korea, Syria, Belarus and Eritrea joined Russia in opposing the measure.Fighting continued regardless. Police in Kyiv said that there were explosions in the capital overnight, but that it was the result of Ukraine’s air defences hitting Russian missiles launched at the city.
Zelenskiy accused Russian forces of shelling routes that could be used for evacuation, as well as cutting off electricity, water, food and medical supplies “for peaceful civilians of Ukraine”. The prime ministers of Lithuania and Estonia called for a humanitarian corridor to be established to allow people to leave, while acknowledging that Russia and Ukraine would need to agree on the plan.
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