Missiles Strike Ukraine S Lviv As Biden Says Putin Cannot Remain In Power

Biden’s improvised observation, an escalation of US rhetoric toward Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine, was not a call for regime change in Russia, a White House official said, but was intended to prepare the world’s democracies for a comprehensive conflict. read more Shortly before speaking outside Warsaw Royal Castle on Saturday, four rockets hit the outskirts of Lviv, just 60 kilometers (40 miles) from the Polish border, local officials said. read more Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register Another attack caused significant damage to Lviv infrastructure, but no deaths were reported from any attack. As the fighting continues after Russia’s invasion of its neighbor on February 24, an apparently outraged Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has once again called on Western nations to send military equipment. He asked if Moscow had frightened them, saying: “We have been waiting for 31 days already.” read more Biden, in a fiery speech ending a European journey to strengthen the West’s determination, framed the war as part of a historic struggle for democratic freedoms. “In the name of God, this man can not stay in power,” Biden said at the end of his speech. The Kremlin rejected the comment, saying: “This is not a Biden issue. “The president of Russia is elected by the Russians.” Biden, after meeting refugees in Poland, called Putin a “butcher.” “We must have clear eyes. This battle will not be won in days or months,” he said. “We have to strengthen ourselves for a long fight ahead of us.” Moscow says targets for what Putin calls a “special military operation” include demilitarizing and “rewarding” its neighbor. Ukraine and its Western allies call it a pretext for an unprovoked invasion. Russia has failed to occupy any major Ukrainian cities, and the conflict has killed thousands, sent nearly 3.8 million abroad and displaced more than half of Ukraine’s children from their homes, according to the United Nations. BATTLES, BOMBINGS PANHELLENIC Western intelligence officials say Russian forces are now relying on indiscriminate bombing instead of endangering large-scale ground operations, a tactic that could reduce Russian military casualties but harm more civilians. Ninety-year-old Olha Moliboha escaped from the northern city of Chernihiv shortly before Russia destroyed a bridge connecting it with Kyiv, preventing further evacuations or humanitarian supplies. read more People watch as smoke rises after an air raid as Russia’s attack on Ukraine continues, in Lviv, Ukraine, March 26, 2022. REUTERS / Pavlo Palamarchuk
read more “They attacked and bombed us. They destroyed everything in our city. So many children died, so many women,” said Moliboha, now in Poland, in tears, in a wheelchair, with her dog on her knees. “All our houses are destroyed, they no longer exist. There is nowhere to live.” Russian forces have taken over Slavutych, a town where workers live at a non-functioning Chernobyl nuclear power plant, and the mayor says three people have been killed, the Interfax Ukraine news agency reported. read more Ukrainian personnel continued to work at Chernobyl after Russian forces occupied the site of the worst nuclear accident in the world. Russian forces fired on a nuclear research facility in Kharkov, the Ukrainian parliament has said. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said on Sunday that Russia continued its “full-scale armed aggression” while Ukrainian forces repulsed seven attacks in the eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, destroying many tanks and artillery. Reuters has not been able to independently verify accounts of the conflict across Ukraine. In the besieged southern port of Mariupol, Mayor Vadym Boichenko said the situation remained critical, with street battles in the center. Mariupol has been devastated by weeks of Russian fires. Russia said last week it had evacuated several hundred thousand people from the war zone, but Ukraine says thousands of its residents, including Mariupol, have been deported illegally. Ukrainian officials have called on the International Committee of the Red Cross not to open a planned office in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, saying it would legalize Moscow’s “humanitarian corridors” and the abduction and deportation of Ukrainians. read more UKRAINE IS WAITING The United States, which has pledged billions in aid, has pledged an additional $ 100 million in on-site equipment and civilian security assistance to Ukraine’s border guards and police. read more Zelensky compared the destruction of Mariupol to the destruction caused in the Syrian city of Aleppo by Syrian and Russian forces in the Syrian civil war. He warned of dire consequences if Ukraine – one of the world’s largest grain producers – could not export its food and urged energy-producing countries to boost production so that Russia could not use its oil and gas wealth. to “blackmail” other nations. read more The United Nations has confirmed 1,104 civilian deaths and 1,754 injuries in Ukraine and says the actual toll is likely to be higher. Ukraine says 136 children have been killed. Russia’s Defense Ministry said 1,351 Russian soldiers had been killed and 3,825 wounded, Interfax news agency reported on Friday. Ukraine says 15,000 Russian soldiers have been killed. Reuters could not independently verify the allegations. Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register Reports by Reuters reporters in Mariupol, Natalia Zinets and Maria Starkova in Lviv, Jarrett Renshaw in Warsaw and Lidia Kelly in Melbourne. Lincoln Feast writes. Edited by William Mallard Our role models: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.