Victoria
Kim
March 22,
2022, 12:11 a.m. ET32 minutes ago
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Victoria
Kim
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/03/21/world/ukraine-russia-war
Here are
the latest developments in Ukraine.
Besieged cities across Ukraine were bracing for
intensifying Russian attacks as President Biden renewed his warning that Russia
may be gearing up to use chemical or biological weapons. The president also
conferred with European leaders on how to dial up pressure on Russia ahead of
his visit to the continent this week.
An unfounded allegation by the Russian leader,
Vladimir V. Putin, that the United States and Ukraine had weapons of mass
destruction in the country was “a clear sign he’s considering using” them, Mr.
Biden told CEOs at the Business Roundtable on Monday evening. “He’s already
used chemical weapons in the past, and we should be careful about what’s to
come.”
Frustrated in its attempts to take control of
Kyiv and other cities in a war that analysts say is grinding into a stalemate,
Russia is resorting to long-range missiles and other weapons to bombard cities
from afar. Rescue workers in Kyiv were sifting through the wreckage of one of
the strongest such attacks, which destroyed a sprawling mall in the Ukrainian
capital. City officials said at least eight people had been killed at the mall,
which housed a multiplex movie theater, a fitness club and fast-food
restaurants like McDonald’s and KFC.
The bulk of Russian forces are still more than 15
miles from the center of Kyiv, which remains the primary objective of the
Russian military, British defense officials said.
Mr. Biden confirmed that Russia had used a
hypersonic missile in Ukraine, the first use of such a weapon in combat, which
Moscow had previously said it used on an ammunition depot in western Ukraine.
The president called it “a consequential weapon”
that is nearly impossible to stop, and said that its use was a sign that
Russia’s military was running out of options in the face of fierce Ukrainian
resistance. “It’s the only thing they can get through with absolute certainty,”
he said.
In other
major developments:
In response to Mr. Biden’s labeling of Mr. Putin
as a “murderous dictator” and a “pure thug,” Russia’s foreign ministry said Monday
that the comments had put “Russian-American relations on the verge of
breaking.”
In a video address shared online early Tuesday,
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine condemned Russian attacks on protesters
in the city of Kherson in the south and strikes in the Zaporizhzhia region in
the southeast, where four children were hospitalized.
Scant information was available from the
strategically positioned city of Mariupol, just 40 miles from the Russian
border and key to Russia’s efforts to complete a land bridge to Crimea. The
city has been cut off from water, electricity and communications and has been
nearly impossible to escape due to fierce fighting. A Ukrainian official
accused Russian forces of firing on buses evacuating women and children from
the city.
Ukraine’s foreign ministry said children had been
forcibly relocated from the eastern Donbas region, the site of fighting for
control over two separatist areas since 2014. Oleg Nikolenko, the ministry’s
spokesman, said in a statement that 2,389 children were taken from their
parents on a single day, March 19. The claim could not be independently confirmed.
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