KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The mayor of the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol said Monday that more than 10,000 civilians have died in the Russian siege of his city, and that the death toll could surpass 20,000, with corpses that were “carpeted through the streets.”
Highlights
- Mariupol Mayor Vadym Boychenko says more than 10,000 civilians have died in the Russian siege of his city.
- He says corpses have been “carpeted through the streets” and the death toll could surpass 20,000.
- Russia says it destroyed several Ukrainian air-defense systems in a renewed push to gain air superiority in the east.
- The U.N.
- children’s agency says nearly two-thirds of all Ukrainian children have fled their homes in the six weeks since the Russian invasion began.
- Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer says he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow for talks that were “very direct, open and tough”