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Reports of ‘mass murder' overshadow fresh efforts to evacuate civilians fleeing invasion
Evening Standard
|March 09, 2022
AIR raid sirens sounded again in cities across Ukraine today as fresh efforts to evacuate civilians were overshadowed by new reports of “mass murder” from the Russian bombardment.
Ukrainian media said the alerts warning about potential new attacks were sounded in Chernihiv — the site of a failed evacuation attempt earlier this week — Luby, Vasylkiv and Kyiv.
They also reported sirens in Poltava, which yesterday saw the arrival of 5,000 citizens fleeing from the encircled city of Sumy after the first successful operation of a humanitarian corridor.
Britain’s Ministry of Defence said two other major cities, Kharkiv and Mariupol, were still facing heavy shelling and continued to be surrounded by Russian troops.
It came as the regional governor of Sumy Dmytro Zhyvytsky announced that 22 people, including three children, had been killed in the city during overnight shelling on Monday. He said the deaths amounted to “mass murder” and were the result of Russian bombs unleashed into a residential area.
This story is from the March 09, 2022 edition of Evening Standard.
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