At least 10 million people have fled their homes in Ukraine due to the "devastating" war in the country, the UN refugee chief said on Sunday. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said the port city of Mariupol is suffering under a campaign of "terror" waged by Russian troops while city council officials said thousands of residents had been taken by force across the border onto Russian territory. FRANCE 24 brought you Sunday’s events as they unfolded in the liveblog below.
- More than 900 civilians have been killed since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and more than 1,450 have been injured, the UN’s human rights office said Sunday. Due to a lack of information from badly hit cities including Mariupol, the actual tolls are thought to be considerably higher, the office said.
- At least 10 million people in Ukraine have fled their homes due to the "devastating" war in the country and are either internally displaced or have become refugees abroad, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, said on Twitter.
- The Russian defence ministry said on Sunday it had once again fired its Kinzhal hypersonic missiles in Ukraine,"destroying a large storage site for fuels and lubricants" in the Mykolaiv region. Russian Kinzhals on Saturday targeted "a large underground warehouse containing missiles and aviation ammunition" in the village of Deliatyn in the Ivano-Frankivsk region.
- Air raid alerts went off in almost every region of Ukraine late Saturday and early Sunday, according to the Kyiv Independent. Multiple air raids on Mykolaiv took place in quick succession on Saturday, a regional official said, a day after a deadly strike on a military barracks in the southern Ukrainian city.
- Mariupol's rescue workers were still searching for survivors after a theatre was flattened by Russian air strikes on Wednesday. Moscow denies hitting the building or targeting civilians.
- The city council in the besieged port city of Mariupol said Russian forces bombed an art school where about 400 residents had taken shelter. There was no word yet on casualties.
- Zelensky said in an address to the nation early on Sunday that the country wants peace and that ongoing talks with Russia are “not simple or pleasant, but they are necessary”. He has requested a direct meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Read the archives of Sunday's live blog below.
(FRANCE 24 with REUTERS, AFP and AP)
