'A brutal, cynical missile strike has completely destroyed the airport' in Vinnytsia, said the Ukrainian president.
for Sunday after days of shelling that has trapped people in without water, heat or electricity. But the plan collapsed, just as it did on Saturday, with both sides blaming the other for breaking the cease-fire.
In a post on Telegram, Mariupol City Council said Russian shelling has made the safe evacuation of civilians impossible."We repeat every day: 'close the sky over Ukraine!' Close it for all Russian missiles, Russian combat aircraft, for all these terrorists," he said. "Make a humanitarian air zone. Without rockets, without air bombs. We are people and it is your humanitarian duty to protect us, protect people.
People cross a destroyed bridge as they evacuate the city of Irpin, northwest of Kyiv, during heavy shelling and bombing on March 5, 2022. The U.N. refugee agency said more than 1.5 million people had fled Ukraine into neighboring countries."And you can do it. If you do not do that, if you at least do not give us aircraft for us to be able to protect ourselves, there can only be one conclusion: You also want us to be slowly killed.
NATO countries have ruled out establishing a no-fly zone, saying it could risk escalating the conflict. Russian President