Richard
Pérez-Peña and Azi Paybarah
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/03/09/world/ukraine-russia-war
Here are
the latest developments in the war on Ukraine.
The highest
level peace talks of the war in Ukraine are scheduled for Thursday in Turkey,
between Foreign Minister Sergey V. Lavrov of Russia and his Ukrainian
counterpart, Dmytro Kuleba.
The meeting
comes amid some of the fiercest fighting of the war, which was entering its
third week, and a day after a maternity hospital in Ukraine was destroyed. The
Kremlin accused the United States of waging an “economic war” against Russia as
a growing number of businesses announced they were suspending operations in the
country.
Perilous
conditions were getting worse in several Ukrainian cities where Russian forces
were closing in, increasingly striking civilian targets and leaving people
trapped without basic needs like water, food, heat and medicines. In the
halting efforts to evacuate, thousands of people were able to flee the city of
Sumy, but in other cities, for the fourth day in a row, Ukrainian officials
said that Russian shelling thwarted most attempts to create safe corridors for
escaping civilians.
The
situation was especially dire in the southern port of Mariupol, where Russian
strikes hit several civilian buildings on Wednesday, including a maternity
hospital, sending bloodied pregnant women fleeing into the cold. Hundreds of
casualties have been reported, people have taken to cutting down trees to burn
for heat and cooking, trenches have been dug for mass graves and local
authorities have instructed residents on how to dispose of dead family members
— wrap the bodies, tie the limbs and put them on the street.
Here are
other major developments:
- An estimated 5,000 to 6,000 Russian troops have been killed during the two-week invasion of Ukraine, a U.S. official said. The number was up sharply from an estimate of 3,000 just days ago, reflecting fierce fighting and updated U.S. intelligence estimates
- The U.S. House approved its spending bill, which includes about $13.6 billion in aid to Ukraine. The money is almost evenly split between military and humanitarian aid and is more than twice what was originally proposed.
- The International Monetary Fund approved $1.4 billion in emergency financing support for Ukraine, and said it would “remain closely engaged with the Ukrainian authorities.”
- More companies are pulling out of Russia,
including the hotel chains Hyatt and Hilton. Sony, which makes the PlayStation,
said it had suspended software and hardware shipments to Russia. And Little
Caesars is suspending operations at stores owned by franchisees. The Times is tracking the pullouts.
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