Ukraine accuses Moscow of breaking ceasefire to trap civilians in Mariupol

The Red Cross calls conditions inside Mariupol 'apocalyptic,' with residents sheltering underground from relentless bombardment, with no access to food, water, power or heat. RussiaUkraineCrisis

LVIV, Ukraine – Ukraine accused Russia on Wednesday, March 9, of breaking a ceasefire to prevent the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of civilians trapped in the besieged port of Mariupol, where the Red Cross has described conditions as “apocalyptic”.

However, Russian forces were preventing a convoy of 50 buses from evacuating civilians from the town of Bucha outside Kyiv, local authorities said in an online post, adding that talks continued to allow the convoy to leave. Kyiv and its Western allies dismiss that as a baseless pretext for an unprovoked war against a democratic country of 44 million people.

The International Atomic Energy Agency said in a statement the heat generated by the spent fuel and the volume of cooling water were such that it was “sufficient for effective heat removal without need for electrical supply.”The war has swiftly cast Russia into economic isolation never before visited on such a large economy.

Russia’s ruling United Russia party said it proposed seizing the assets of foreign companies that leave. Ukraine said on Wednesday it was halting key agricultural exports for the rest of the year. Russia too said it needed to maintain domestic supplies of grain. In the latest sign of what was rapidly becoming a global food crisis, Indonesia said it would curb sales of palm oil after global prices surged.

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