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The claim was made by city official Petro Andryushchenko

About 300 civilians from the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol have reached the city of Zaporizhzhia after leaving in the first successful evacuation of residents on Monday, Mariupol city council said on Tuesday.

The UN says it expects the number of Ukrainian refugees to reach at least four million, while Poland’s PM announced he and his counterparts from the Czech Republic and Slovenia are now in Kyiv

Fleeing residents headed for city of Zaporizhzhia, officials say

U.S. President Joe Biden will make his first visit to Europe since the invasion of Ukraine to discuss the crisis with NATO allies next week, the White House said on Tuesday as the refugee tally hit 3 million amid more Russian air strikes.

The interior ruins of an apartment destroyed by Russian shelling were visible from the streets of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city. People in winter coats and hats took cover from an attack inside a building entryway in Mariupol, a besieged port city. And in neighboring Poland, a young refugee in blue…

KYIV, Ukraine — Bombardments struck across Ukraine on Monday — including a direct hit on a Kyiv apartment building — as the embattled nation’s leaders engaged in another round of talks with Russia despite little progress after previous negotiations.

Russia-Ukraine news from March 15: Red Cross evacuates several thousand civilians from Sumy, northeastern Ukraine.

Ukraine officials say a series of Russian strikes have hit a residential neighbourhood in Kyiv, igniting a huge fire and frantic rescue effort in a 15-storey apartment building.