According to local authorities, 2,357 people have been killed in Mariupol, southeastern Ukraine, since the Russian war of aggression began.

The port city with around 400,000 inhabitants has been surrounded by Russian units for days and cut off from the rest of the country.

An adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, Petro Andryushchenko, called the situation in the city "inhumane": "No food, no water, no light, no heat." He feared many more deaths - with increasing intensity of the attacks, the number of victims could increase up to 20,000.

Mariupol is considered a symbol of the Ukrainian resistance - since the beginning of the war in eastern Ukraine's Donbass in 2014, several attempts by pro-Russian separatists to take the city have been fended off.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that 100 tons of food, water and medicines for Mariupol have not been allowed to enter the city for three days.

However, the government in Kyiv will try everything to help the people.

Evacuation attempts have largely failed so far.

Ukraine: Only seven out of ten escape corridors worked

In Ukraine, according to information from Kyiv, only seven of the ten planned countrywide escape corridors from particularly hard-fought towns and villages worked on Monday.

Around 4,000 people were taken to safer areas, said Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Wereschuk, according to the Unian agency.

Most of the civilians - a good 2,000 - came from the Kyiv region.

The Ukrainian authorities also accused Russia of having used mortars on vehicles carrying civilians fleeing the town of Hostomel near Kyiv.

A woman was killed and two men injured.

The information is not independently verifiable.

According to Ukrainian sources, nine people were killed in an attack on a television tower near the city of Rivne.

The regional military administration announced that nine other people were injured by the rocket impact in the town of Antopil in north-western Ukraine on Monday morning.

In addition to the television tower, a nearby administration building was also hit.

Russian troops shelled TV towers in Kyiv and Kharkiv.

Anti-war bursts into newscast

With a protest poster and loud shouts, a woman interrupted the main evening news program on Russian television.

During the live broadcast on Monday evening, the anti-war woman jumped into the picture behind the news anchor.

She held a sign that read, "Stop the war.

Don't believe the propaganda.

You are being lied to here.” She shouted out loud several times: “No to the war!” The broadcaster switched to a video report.

According to media reports, the woman is an employee of state television.

In Russia, the media is forbidden from calling the Russian invasion of Ukraine a “war” or an “invasion.”

Instead, there is official talk of a "military special operation".

Selenskyj wants to call those responsible for the serious acts of war in his country accountable without forbearance.

"We are working with our partners on new punitive measures against the Russian state," he said in a video message.

Russia is beginning to realize that it will not achieve anything by going to war.

“They did not expect such resistance.

They believed their propaganda, which has been lying about us for decades.” The Russian military is definitely responsible for war crimes, for a “consciously created humanitarian catastrophe” in Ukrainian cities, Zelensky said.

The Orthodox Church of Ukraine does not consider the fight of the Ukrainian army against the Russian military as a sin.

“We as a people do not seek the death of those who are our neighbors.

But since they came to our house, we are protecting our family, our homeland, our country," Church leader Metropolitan Epifani was quoted as saying by the online newspaper Ukrajinska Pravda on Tuesday night.

The Ukrainian soldiers are there to protect all Ukrainians.

"Defending yourself, killing the enemy - that's not a sin," Metropolitan Epifani said.

"And whoever came to us with a sword will die by that sword."

In Ukraine there are said to be new attempts to get civilians out of embattled cities.

In Germany, the Federal Statistical Office wants to comment on the effects of the sanctions against Russia on trade between the two countries.

The Wiesbaden authority uses data from the past year and from January 2022.