Ukrainian war, Kiev: “Russia has seized humanitarian convoy”

Ukraine war, Russia not only blocked a humanitarian convoy trying to bring aid to Mariupol, but also seized what a senior Ukrainian official said were 15 bus drivers and rescuers on aid missions, along with their vehicles. . The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, denounced him in a message broadcast during the night. The Ukrainian leader said that a group fleeing along an agreed humanitarian route was “simply captured by the occupiers”. And he added: “There are about 100 thousand people in the city – in inhumane conditions, without food, water, medicine and under constant bombing.” “We are trying to organize stable humanitarian corridors for the residents of Mariupol, but almost all of our attempts, sadly, they are thwarted by Russian occupiers, bombing or deliberate terror, “he stressed. Two children died following an attack by Russian forces in Rubizhne, eastern Ukraine. The Kyiv Independent reported, citing the governor of Luhansk oblast, Serhiy Gaidai. According to the governor, a bullet hit an apartment on the fifth floor of a building killing three people, including two children.