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Afternoon summary

Rachel Hall Rachel Hall

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2022/mar/23/russia-ukraine-war-humanitarian-convoy-seized-near-mariupol-says-zelenskiy-as-he-decries-constant-bombing-of-city

 

Here’s the summary of the key events from the afternoon of day 28 of the Russian invasion in Ukraine:

 

• The US government announced that it believes that war crimes have been committed in Ukraine based on its assessment of evidence that civilians have been deliberately targeted.
• The US also said it would announce a package of Russia-related sanctions against political figures and oligarchs on Thursday while US president Joe Biden meets with Nato leaders on Ukraine.
• The mayor of Kyiv said one person was killed and two seriously wounded on Wednesday after shells hit a shopping centre’s parking lot in a northern district of the Ukrainian capital.
• Nato said it was considering whether to ramp up military forces on its border with Ukraine, with an announcement anticipated on Thursday.
• Russian climate envoy Anatoly Chubais has stepped down and left the country in protest against president Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine, making him the highest-level official to break with the Kremlin over the invasion.
• Ludmila Denisova, Ukraine’s human rights ombudsman, claimed that the population in the city of Cherniv, just north of Kiev, had effectively been turned into hostages by Russian forces who have cut off the main routes for humanitarian aid