- New explosions rang out overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday in the Ukrainian capital, where any unauthorized exit is prohibited until Thursday morning. An attack on an apartment building killed at least four people on Tuesday.
- Some 20,000 people were able to leave on Tuesday Mariupol, major port city in the Southeast besieged by Russian forces, using a humanitarian corridor, announced the Ukrainian presidency. In total, about 29,000 people were evacuated on Tuesday from several besieged Ukrainian cities, according to the same source.
- The prime ministers of Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovenia traveled to Kyiv to meet the President, Volodymyr Zelensky, and assure him “unequivocal support” of the EU. Polish Deputy Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski has asked NATO to set up a “mission of peace” in Ukraine. “This mission cannot be an unarmed mission. It must seek to provide humanitarian and peaceful aid in Ukraine”did he declare.
- The fourth session of negotiations to try to find a way out of the crisis must continue on Wednesday. President Zelensky, who is calling for a ceasefire, has said he is ready to give up on obtaining NATO membership for his country, considered a casus belli for Moscow.
- Joe Biden will announce additional security assistance to Ukraine on Wednesday from $800 million, a White House official revealed on Tuesday evening. The American president must make this announcement after an intervention by Volodymyr Zelensky before the United States Congress. It brings “the total announced in the week alone rose to $1 billion”said the official on condition of anonymity.
- The number of people who have fled Ukraine since the beginning of the invasion by the Russian army has reached three million, said a spokesperson for the International Organization for Migration in Geneva.
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