[LIVE] War in Ukraine: follow the latest information
Ukrainian soldiers on a Russian armored vehicle in the Vyshgorod region near Kiev, March 10, 2022. © REUTERS - SERHII NUZHNENKO
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On the sixteenth day of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, follow the latest information available.
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The main points:
► On the ground, Russian forces are
at the gates of the capital Kiev
while the cities of Mariupol, Kharkiv and Mykolaiv - the last lock before the port of Odessa - are
under fire from bombs
.
The situation is particularly critical in Mariupol, where a pediatric hospital was bombed on Wednesday, killing three people, including a young girl.
► The
UN Security Council is due to meet
this Friday, at the request of Moscow.
► Heads of State and Government of
the European Union are meeting in Versailles
to reflect on ways to reduce their dependence on Russian gas and oil and strengthen their support for Ukraine, without offering it integration fast to the community block it demands.
► According to the UN,
more than 2 million people
have fled Ukraine since the start of the Russian military offensive.
Among them are one million children, according to the NGO Save The Children.
► About
100,000 people evacuated
in two days from Ukrainian cities, announced the Ukrainian President.
► In response to Western sanctions, the Russian authorities
announced an embargo
until the end of the year on exports in the medical agricultural sectors, as well as in tech, telecoms and electrical equipment.
Times are given in Universal Time (UT)
12 a.m.: Friday meeting of the UN Security Council on biological weapons requested by Moscow
The UN Security Council will meet urgently on Friday at 3 p.m. GMT on the alleged manufacture of biological weapons in Ukraine, at the request of Moscow, whose credibility in the field of chemical weapons has been called into question by Washington and London. during a session on Syria.
Russia accuses Washington and Kiev of managing laboratories intended to produce biological weapons in Ukraine, which has been denied by the two capitals.
Moscow had already accused in 2018 the United States of secretly carrying out biological experiments in a laboratory in Georgia, another former Soviet republic which, like Ukraine, aims to join NATO and the European Union.
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