• 4:07 a.m.: New UN convoy expected to evacuate civilians from Azovstal

A new UN convoy is expected to evacuate the last civilians entrenched in the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol, the last pocket of Ukrainian resistance in this strategic port of Donbass, without however the assurance of a truce in the fighting.

Despite this uncertainty, the UN Assistant Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs, Martin Griffiths, announced Thursday that this new convoy was heading towards the martyr city, which has become one of the symbols of the Russian invasion that began on February 24.

  • 2:34 a.m.: Russia has destroyed hundreds of hospitals, claims Volodymyr Zelensky

Hundreds of institutions and hospitals have been destroyed since the start of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, leaving doctors without drugs for the treatment of diseases such as cancers, or unable to perform surgery, said the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Volodymyr Zelensky said in a video to a charity medical group that many facilities in eastern and southern Ukraine, where the fighting is taking place, were notably short of antibiotics.

"If we only take into account the medical infrastructures, the Russian troops have, to date, destroyed or damaged nearly 400 of them: hospitals, maternity wards, outpatient treatment centers," he explained.

  • 12:33 a.m .: Pentagon denies helping Ukraine to target Russian generals

The US Department of Defense has denied providing intelligence allowing Ukrainian forces to target senior Russian officers near the front, as reported by The New York Times.

It's true that the United States is passing intelligence to kyiv "to help the Ukrainians defend their country," Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said.

But, he added, "we do not provide information on the whereabouts of senior military commanders on the battlefield, nor do we participate in targeting decisions made by the Ukrainian military."

  • 11:57 p.m .: Several countries call for an end to the Russian war in Ukraine

The UN and several countries on Thursday called for an end to Russia's war in Ukraine, with little mention of a revival of their seemingly stalled peace talks.

"Russia's invasion of Ukraine is a violation of its territorial integrity and of the Charter of the United Nations," UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said at a Security Council meeting. by Washington.

"This must stop for the good of the people of Ukraine, Russia and the whole world," he added.

The UN chief recently traveled to Moscow and kyiv to push for the evacuation of civilians from Mariupol, several hundred of whom have been able to leave the city since this weekend.

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