📸 Egor, 5, comforts his mother Helen Yakubets who cries in a temporary shelter after fleeing from Chernihiv in Ukraine to Romania, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Her 18-year-old son and husband remain in Ukraine to fight.
“There can be no talk of any surrender, laying down of arms," Deputy Prime Minister Irina Vereshchuk said, according to The Associated Press.Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters
“In besieged Mariupol, Russian aircraft dropped a bomb on an art school. People were hiding there. Hiding from shelling, from bombing,” Zelenskyy said, according to an official translation from his office. “There were no military positions. There were about four hundred civilians. Mostly women and children, the elderly. They are under the debris. We do not know how many are alive at the moment.”
"The President will discuss how the United States, alongside our Allies and partners, is responding to the humanitarian and human rights crisis that Russia’s unjustified and unprovoked war on Ukraine has created," White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said in a statement Sunday. He called on the official authorities in Kyiv to “see reason” and to cancel orders given earlier that he said oblige Ukrainian fighters “to sacrifice themselves and to become the ’martyrs of Mariupol.’”Evacuees sit in their cars as they try to leave the besieged port city of Mariupol, Ukraine, March 17, 2022.
He claims Russia’s goals in the city are “purely humanitarian” and repeated Russia’s false claims that it was Ukrainian “nationalist” forces that have destroyed several major civilian buildings, which in reality have been struck directly by Russian air and missile strikes. During the address, Zelenskyy drew parallels between Ukraine and Israel's challenges with their neighbors and questioned why Israel has not sent arms to Ukraine or imposed sanctions on Russia.
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