A fresh effort is underway to evacuate trapped civilians from the besieged city of Mariupol as Ukrainian forces brace for a renewed Russian offensive in the east. Ukrainian officials said they’re sending a convoy of buses to evacuate people from Mariupol on Thursday after Russia said it was ready to observe a one-day ceasefire in…

The latest on the Russia–Ukraine crisis, March 23. Click here for updates from March 22. Russian Economist Chubais Resigns as Putin’s Aide The Kremlin says President Vladimir Putin’s envoy for liaison with international organizations has resigned. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was quoted by the Interfax news agency as saying that Anatoly Chubais had submitted his…

The latest on the Russia–Ukraine crisis, March 23. Click here for updates from March 22. US Formally Accuses Russian Troops of Committing War Crimes in Ukraine The Biden administration on Wednesday made a formal announcement that Russian troops have committed war crimes in Ukraine and said it would work with others to prosecute offenders, Secretary…

The latest on the Russia–Ukraine crisis, March 23. Click here for updates from March 22. Ukraine Says Russia Talks Moving Forward as West Plans More Sanctions Talks between Ukraine and Russia are moving forward, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Wednesday, as the West plans to announce more sanctions against the Kremlin amid a worsening humanitarian…

The British government has condemned Russia’s alleged “abduction and deportation” of Ukrainian residents from the besieged city of Mariupol. Foreign Secretary Liz Truss wrote on Twitter: “I am appalled by Russian atrocities in Mariupol, including attacks on schools sheltering civilians and the abduction and deportation of Ukrainians. “Putin is resorting to desperate measures as he…

Ukrainian officials said that the country has rejected Russia’s demand to surrender the eastern port city of Mariupol by 5 a.m. Moscow time on March 21 in exchange for safe passage of residents out of the city. “There can be no question of any surrender, laying down of arms,” the Ukrainska Pravda news portal cited…

Some of the hundreds of people who had been sheltering in a Mariupol theater that Ukraine said was hit by a powerful Russian air strike are alive and are being rescued from the rubble, according to Ukrainian officials. Sergei Orlov, the deputy mayor of Mariupol, told the BBC that “most” of what he estimated was…

Russian forces have taken at least 400 people hostage at a hospital in the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol, according to regional leader Pavlo Kyrylenko. In a statement on the messaging app Telegram, Kyrylenko said about 400 people were driven to the Regional Intensive Care Hospital in Mariupol from neighboring houses. Kyrylenko quoted a hospital…

Evacuation of the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol is underway after multiple prior failures to secure a ceasefire that would allow for the safe operation of a humanitarian corridor, according to an adviser to the city’s mayor. Petro Andrushenko, an adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, said in a Monday post on Facebook that, as…

Russia asserted Thursday that the claim from Ukraine that Moscow forces were responsible for the bombing of a maternity hospital in the port city of Mariupol was “fake news.” “That’s how fake news is born,” Dmitry Polyanskiy, Russia’s first deputy permanent representative to the United Nations, said on Twitter. He said that Russia had said…