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A local resident searches for his belongings in an apartment building after it
was hit by artillery shelling in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, March 14, 2022. (AP
Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
By Associated Press |
PUBLISHED: March 15, 2022 at 8:44 p.m. | UPDATED: March 16, 2022 at 4:13 a.m.

By ANDREA ROSA | The Associated Press

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine said it saw possible room for compromise in talks
with Russia despite Moscow’s stepped up bombardment Tuesday of Kyiv and new
assaults on the port city of Mariupol, from where an estimated 20,000 civilians
managed to flee through a humanitarian corridor.

The fast-moving developments on the diplomatic front and on the ground came as
Russia’s invasion neared the three-week mark and the number of Ukrainians who
have left the country amid Europe’s heaviest fighting since World War II
eclipsed 3 million.

After delegations from Ukraine and Russia met again Tuesday via video, Ukrainian
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said early Wednesday that Russia’s demands were
becoming “more realistic.” The two sides were expected to speak again Wednesday.



“Efforts are still needed, patience is needed,” he said in his nightly video
address to the nation. “Any war ends with an agreement.”

Zelenskyy, who was expected to address the U.S. Congress on Wednesday, thanked
President Joe Biden and “all the friends of Ukraine” for $13.6 billion in new
support.

He appealed for more weapons and more sanctions to punish Russia, and repeated
his call to “close the skies over Ukraine to Russian missiles and planes.”

He said Russian forces on Tuesday had been unable to move deeper into Ukrainian
territory but had continued their heavy shelling of cities.

Over the past day, 28,893 civilians were able to flee the fighting through nine
humanitarian corridors, although the Russians refused to allow aid into
Mariupol, he said.



In other developments, the leaders of three European Union countries — Poland,
the Czech Republic and Slovenia — visited the embattled capital Tuesday,
arriving by train in a bold show of support amid the danger.

Meanwhile, large explosions thundered across Kyiv before dawn from what
Ukrainian authorities said were artillery strikes, as Russia’s bombardment of
the capital appeared to become more systematic and edged closer to the city
center, smashing apartments, a subway station and other civilian sites.

Zelenskyy said Tuesday that barrages hit four multi-story buildings in the city
and killed dozens. The strikes disrupted the relative calm that returned after
an initial advance by Moscow’s forces was stopped in the early days of the war.

A senior U.S. defense official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to
discuss the Pentagon’s assessment, said that the Russians were using long-range
fire to hit civilian targets inside Kyiv with increasing frequency but that
their ground forces were making little to no progress around the country. The
official said Russian troops were still about 15 kilometers (9 miles) from the
center of the capital.

The official said the U.S. has seen indications that Russia believes it may need
more troops or supplies than it has on hand in Ukraine, and it is considering
ways to get more resources into the country. The official did not elaborate.

Before Tuesday’s talks, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Moscow would
press its demands that Ukraine drop its bid to join NATO, adopt a neutral status
and “demilitarize.”

In a statement that seemed to signal potential grounds for agreement with
Moscow, Zelenskyy told European leaders gathered in London that he realizes NATO
has no intention of accepting Ukraine.

“We have heard for many years about the open doors, but we also heard that we
can’t enter those doors,” he said. “This is the truth, and we have simply to
accept it as it is.”

NATO does not admit nations with unsettled territorial conflicts. Zelenskyy has
repeatedly said in recent weeks that he realizes NATO isn’t going to offer
membership to Ukraine and that he could consider a neutral status for his
country but needs strong security guarantees from both the West and Russia.

The U.N. said close to 700 civilians in Ukraine have been confirmed killed, with
the true figure probably much higher.

Two journalists working for Fox News were killed when the vehicle they were
traveling in was hit by fire Monday on the outskirts of Kyiv, the network said.
Fox identified the two as video journalist Pierre Zakrzewski and Ukrainian
journalist Oleksandra “Sasha” Kuvshynova, who was helping Fox crews navigate the
area. Another journalist was killed Sunday in Ukraine.

New efforts to bring civilians to safety and deliver aid were underway around
the country. The Red Cross said it was working to evacuate people in about 70
buses from the northeastern town of Sumy, near the Russian border.

The exodus from Mariupol marked the biggest evacuation yet from the southern
city of 430,000, where officials say a weekslong siege has killed more than
2,300 people and left residents struggling for food, water, heat and medicine.
Bodies have been buried in mass graves.

Kyrylo Tymoshenko, a senior aide to Zelenskyy, said that about 20,000 people
managed to leave Mariupol on Tuesday in 4,000 private vehicles via a designated
safe corridor leading to the city of Zaporizhzhia.

On a day when thousands managed to leave Mariupol, Russian troops seized the
city’s largest hospital, said regional leader Pavlo Kyrylenko. He said the
troops forced about 400 people from nearby homes into the Regional Intensive
Care Hospital and were using them and roughly 100 patients and staff as human
shields by not allowing them to leave.

Kyrylenko said shelling had already heavily damaged the hospital’s main
building, but medical staff have been treating patients in makeshift wards in
the basement.

Doctors from other Mariupol hospitals made a video to tell the world about the
horrors they’ve been seeing. “We don’t want to be heroes and martyrs
posthumously,” one woman said. She also said it’s insufficient to simply refer
to people as the wounded: “it’s torn off arms and legs, gouged out eyes, bodies
torn into fragments, insides falling out.”

Meanwhile, the Ukrainian army’s general staff said Tuesday evening that Russian
troops had launched another assault on the strategically important city.

Fighting has intensified on Kyiv’s outskirts in recent days, and air raid sirens
wailed inside the capital. The mayor imposed a curfew extending through Thursday
morning.

Tuesday’s artillery strikes hit the Svyatoshynskyi district of western Kyiv,
adjacent to the suburb of Irpin, which has seen some of the worst fighting of
the war.

Flames shot out of a 15-story apartment building and smoke choked the air as
firefighters climbed ladders to rescue people. The assault blackened several
floors of the building, ripped a hole in the ground outside and blew out windows
in neighboring apartment blocks. Rescue workers said at least one person was
killed.

“Yesterday we extinguished one fire, today another. It is very difficult,” a
firefighter who gave only his first name, Andriy, said outside the building,
tears falling from his eyes. “People are dying, and the worst thing is that
children are dying. They haven’t lived their lives and they have already seen
this.”

City authorities also tweeted an image of the blown-out facade of a downtown
subway station that had been used as a bomb shelter and said trains would no
longer stop at the station.

A 10-story apartment building in the Podilsky district of Kyiv, north of the
government quarter, was damaged. Russian forces also stepped up strikes
overnight on Irpin and the northwest Kyiv suburbs of Hostomel and Bucha, said
the head of the capital region, Oleksiy Kuleba.

“Many streets have been turned into a mush of steel and concrete. People have
been hiding for weeks in basements, and are afraid to go out even for
evacuations,” Kuleba said on Ukrainian television.




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In the country’s east, Russian forces launched more than 60 strikes overnight
Monday into Tuesday on Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, according to
regional administration chief, Oleh Sinehubov. The strikes hit the city’s
historical center, including the main marketplace.



He said the bodies of dozens of civilians were pulled from destroyed apartment
buildings.

On Tuesday evening, Ukrainian forces repelled Russian troops who tried to storm
Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, from their positions in Piatykhatky, a
suburb 15 kilometers (9 miles) to the north, the regional administration chief,
Oleh Sinehubov, said on Telegram. He said the Kharkiv’s defenders were able “to
push the enemy back beyond its previous position,” in what he described as a
“shameful defeat” for Russia.

___

Associated Press writers Lolita C. Baldor in Washington, Raf Casert in Brussels
and AP journalists from around the world contributed to this report.

___

Follow the AP’s coverage of the war in Ukraine at
https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine





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