Ukraine, Russia agree to day-long ceasefire to allow evacuation of civilians

  March 09, 2022   News ID 6270
Ukraine, Russia agree to day-long ceasefire to allow evacuation of civilians
Ukraine will try to evacuate civilians through six "humanitarian corridors" on Wednesday, Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said in a video statement, adding that Ukrainian armed forces had agreed to stop firing in those areas from 9 am. Russia also said it would “observe a regime of silence” Wednesday to ensure safe passage for civilians.
  • Russia and Ukraine on Wednesday agreed on a day-long ceasefire around a series of evacuation corridors to allow civilians to escape the fighting. Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said Moscow vowed to respect the truce from 9:00 am to 9:00 pm around six areas, including regions near Kyiv, in Zaporizhzhia in the south, and some parts of Ukraine’s northeast.
  • The Chernobyl nuclear power plant is no longer transmitting data to the UN’s atomic watchdog, the agency said Tuesday. More than 200 technical staff and guards remain trapped at the site, working 13 days straight since the Russian takeover.
  • US President Joe Biden announced a ban on US imports of oil from Russia in response to Moscow's invasion of Ukraine. The UK also said they would phase out Russian oil imports by the end of the year.
  • The UN said the number of refugees fleeing Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion on February 24 surged past 2 million.
  • Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed to "fight to the end" in a virtual speech to UK lawmakers that earned him a standing ovation. "We will not give up and we will not lose," he said.

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