Zelenskiy says Mariupol loss of life likely in many thousands; Austrian chancellor has 'immediate, open and extreme discussions' with Putin
Uprooted youngsters and nuns express supplications in a stopgap house of prayer in the Ivano-Frankivsk district of western Ukraine
Uprooted youngsters and nuns express supplications in a stopgap house of prayer in the Ivano-Frankivsk district of western Ukraine. Photo: Nariman El-Mofty/AP
Helen Livingstone and Martin Belam
Mon 11 Apr 2022 18.14 BST
A huge number of individuals have likely been killed in Russia's attack on the south-eastern city of Mariupol, Ukraine's leader has said. Talking in a video address toward the South Korean parliament, Volodymyr Zelenskiy said": "Ukraine needs support for its military, including planes and tanks."
Ukrainian powers are preparing themselves for a "last fight" to control Mariupol, an assertion on the Facebook page of the 36th marine unit of the Ukrainian military says. Ukraine's tactical president, Gen Valeriy Zaluzhniy, said Ukrainian powers were all the while holding out in the port city.
Moscow won't stop its tactical activity in Ukraine before the following round of harmony talks, says Russia's unfamiliar clergyman, Sergei Lavrov. Talking in a meeting with Russian state TV, Lavrov said he saw not a great explanation not to proceed with converses with Ukraine but rather demanded Moscow wouldn't end its hostile when the sides assembled once more.
Russia is most likely hoping to "twofold or maybe high pitch" the quantity of troops they have in Donbas in eastern Ukraine, a western authority has said. In the interim, a senior US guard official said the US accepted Russia had begun supporting its soldiers in Donbas.
The Austrian chancellor, Karl Nehammer, held "immediate, open and intense" converses with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, in Moscow. In an explanation, Nehammer - the main EU pioneer to have an in-person gathering with Putin since he requested his soldiers to attack Ukraine - was cited as saying that it was "not an amicable gathering".
Russia's guard service asserted it had obliterated a S-300 enemy of airplane rocket framework close to Dnipro that had been provided to Ukraine by a vague European country. Slovakia's state head, Eduard Heger, whose nation gave a S-300 framework last week, portrayed the case as disinformation.
The UK's Ministry of Defense cautioned that Russia's previous utilization of phosphorus weapons in Donetsk "raised the chance of their future work in Mariupol as battling for the city escalates".