We back up the band and start from the morning, where flight alarms started sounding in Kyiv already at dawn.

In step with the growing unrest in not only the capital, the evacuation of, among others, the city of Sumy in northern Ukraine continued through one of the humanitarian corridors that Russia proposed on Tuesday night.

Broken ceasefire

The announced ceasefire, which was to apply in several places in Ukraine between 9 am and 9 pm local time, was repeatedly broken.

First, local authorities in the Chrakiv region reported at 1 pm Swedish time that the evacuation from the city of Izium had been stopped due to Russian shelling.

A few hours later, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba stated that Russian troops continued to bomb the city of Mariupol in southeastern Ukraine.

Even there, it was thought that civilians would be evacuated in a humanitarian corridor to the city of Zaporizhia.

More than 400,000 people are said to be in the port city of Mariupol where, according to Kuleba, they are "being held hostage".

"Almost 3,000 newborns lack medicine and food," Kuleba wrote on Twitter.

One of the targets of the attacks was a children's hospital in the city, where both children and mothers were cared for, Ukrainian authorities reported.

The mayor of Donetsk, where Mariupol is located, told the news agency Reuters that 17 people were injured in connection with the attack.

Several of the injured are women giving birth, according to the mayor.

Putin answers

Russia, for its part, continues to claim that Ukrainian forces are behind the failed ceasefire.

In a telephone conversation with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Vladimir Putin said during the evening that "militant nationalists are trying to sabotage the evacuation of civilians", the Kremlin states according to the news agency AP.

Despite the attacks, more than 40,000 Ukrainians during the day managed to be evacuated from severely war-torn cities, according to Ukrainian negotiator David Arakhmia, who led Ukraine's talks with Russia.

UN chief: Fears another four million refugees

UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grande.

fears that over four million people will be forced to flee Ukraine, in addition to the more than two million already evacuated.

- We have not seen a refugee crisis in Europe that has increased as fast as this since the Second World War, he says in an interview with SVT's Agenda.

Andersson stands by NATO statements

Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson (S) insisted on yesterday's statement that a Swedish NATO application would currently further destabilize Europe.

A statement that attracted attention in Finland yesterday.

- A non-decision is also a decision with its own consequences, said Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin (S) after Andersson's statement.

But Magdalena Andersson today stuck to her line.

- That's what I've been saying all along.

My assessment is that for Swedish security, it is best that we in this situation keep our heads cold and both feet on the ground and have a long-term and predictable security policy line, Andersson said at a press conference.