Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said more than 300 civilians were rescue in the first phase of an evacuation mission from a besieged steel mine in the southeastern coastal city of Mariupol.
Zelenski said preparations were underway to remove the injured also doctors from the factory.
In northern Luhansk, the regional governor said Russia dropped a bomb on a school. Where 90 people had fled the fighting. So far, about 30 people have been rescue from the rubble, Governor Sergei Haday said.
According to its senior official, the World Health Organization has documented 200 attacks on health facilities in Ukraine. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Gebreyesus said the global health agency supported the Ukrainian people and urged Russia to end the war.
In Washington, CIA chief William Burns said also Russian President Vladimir Putin believes. He cannot lose in Ukraine and is likely to double the war.
In Lithuania, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba called for creating a special tribunal to try Russian leaders.
A dress rehearsal for Russia’s annual Victory Day will take place on Saturday. May 9 marks the anniversary of Nazi Germany’s defeat by the then-Soviet Union in World War II. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. That Russian troops did something “indescribable” every day in this war after attacking a museum in Ukraine.
“Every day in this war, the Russian soldier does something that cannot be said. But every day, he does something that makes you feel in a new way. He said in a regular address Saturday night.
“Targeting an attack on a museum not even all terrorists can think of that,” Zelensky added.
This ruined museum is dedicated to the 18th-century philosopher and poet Grigory Skovoroda.