Humanitarian corridor attempt fails, as Russian forces advance on Kyiv - this is what happened on day 10 of the Ukraine invasion
An attempt on the tenth day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine to open a humanitarian corridor for the first time in the conflict failed.ElsewhereThe cities of Kharkiv and Chernihiv - where a Russian jet was shot down this morning - also continue to be the targets of strikes, while fighting reached the outskirts of Mykolaiv.Protests broke out this morning in the southern cities of Kherson and Melitipol, the two biggest to be taken by Russian forces, in defiance of Russian occupation.
The Russians have made much swifter progress in the south than the north – the red areas are those they currently control. In the southeast of the country a ceasefire was brokered in Mariupol and Volnovakha to allow more than 200,000 people safe passage inland. These forces have moved relatively swiftly over sparsely populated flat ground, but they may now face more difficulty having reached the more built-up area of Kyiv's eastern suburbs.
Filippo Grandi, head of the UN Refugee Agency, said:"This is the fastest moving refugee crisis we have seen in Europe since the end of World War Two."
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