Two people were killed and three injured when a shell hit a residential building in north-west Kyiv on Monday morning, Ukraine’s state emergency services has said.
“As of 07:40, the bodies of two people were found in a nine-storey residential building, three people were hospitalised, nine people were treated on the spot,” the agency said in a statement just after 8am.
A further 15 people were reportedly rescued from the blaze and 63 evacuated with the fire extinguished just before 8am.
The nine-storey residential apartment building reportedly caught fire from Russian shelling after 5am.
Ukraine’s state emergency service published an update at 7.30am local time, saying they received a report of a fire that broke out shortly after 5am in the Obolonskyi district of the capital.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba called on the West on Monday to supply Ukraine with weapons and apply more sanctions on Russia to help prevent other countries being dragged into a wider conflict.
Ukraine has repeatedly urged its allies to do more to help it resist the Russian invasion that began on 24 February.
Some Western governments fear that doing so could pull other countries, including Nato member states, into the war, Reuters reported.
Dmytro Kuleba (@DmytroKuleba)
To those abroad scared of being ‘dragged into WWIII’. Ukraine fights back successfully. We need you to help us fight. Provide us with all necessary weapons. Apply more sanctions on Russia and isolate it fully. Help Ukraine force Putin into failure and you will avert a larger war.
“To those abroad scared of being €˜dragged into WWIII€™. Ukraine fights back successfully. We need you to help us fight. Provide us with all necessary weapons,” Kuleba wrote on Twitter.
“Apply more sanctions on Russia and isolate it fully. Help Ukraine force Putin into failure and you will avert a larger war.”
The British health secretary Sajid Javid said the Ukraine Family Scheme for refugees was “being made easier and more straightforward” from Tuesday.
He told Times Radio the latest information from Saturday revealed “just over 3,000” visas had been granted through the programme”.
But he said:
As well as that particular scheme, the extended family scheme being made easier and more straightforward by our online-only process from tomorrow, there’s the new homes for Ukrainian families scheme, which will also go live later this week.
Mr Javid said there would be a “basic level of security checks” in both schemes, and he added:
I think that is right because you want to get the right balance between sort of speed and the people that we’re trying to help are in a desperate situation, and you want to bring that help as quickly as possible, but also do some basic checks and I think what we have done here is the right balance.
The health secretary said those offering a place for refugees to stay would be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks.
Australia and the Netherlands have launched legal proceedings against Russia through the International Civil Aviation Organization for the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17.
The legal action could compel Russia to take part in stalled negotiations with the two countries, and could also result in it being penalised by the United Nations-linked organisation that is responsible for the administration of international aviation law.
Australia and the Netherlands have been seeking compensation and an apology from the Russian federation for the MH17 disaster, in which 298 people, including 38 Australians, died when it was shot down over Ukraine in 2014.
Ria van der Steen, who lost her father and stepmother in the MH17 crash, is preparing to give testimony in court in the trial of four men charged with murder over the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17.
However, Russia, which has denied involvement despite the findings of an international investigation, unilaterally withdrew from negotiations with the two countries in October 2020.
It is 9.30am in Ukraine on day 19 of Russia’s war. Here is where the situation stands:
- Two people were killed and three injured when a shell hit a residential building in north-west Kyiv on Monday morning, Ukraine’s state emergency services said. The nine-storey residential apartment building reportedly caught fire from Russian shelling after 5am.
- The Antonov aircraft plant in Kyiv has been shelled by Russian forces, the Kyiv city administration said in an update on its official Telegram account on Monday morning. The site, also known as Hostomel, is located about 11km north-west of the centre of Kviv and is the country’s most important international cargo airport, as well as a key military airbase.
- Talks will begin shortly between Ukraine and Russia today with officials on both sides offering cautious optimism despite little evidence that Russian president Vladimir Putin’s position has changed. Negotiations are set to begin at 10.30am local time.
- A pregnant woman seen in widely circulated images after Russian bombing of Ukrainian hospital has died with her baby, the Associated Press is reporting. The woman was escaping the bombing of the maternity hospital where she was due to give birth in the besieged city of Mariupol.
- Germany will reportedly purchase up to 35 F-35 fighter jets, a government source told Reuters.
- US officials believe Russia has sought military support from China amid claims that the Russian military is running short on certain kinds of armaments, the Financial Times first reported. The developments have led to fears Beijing may undermine the West’s efforts to help Ukraine.
- The US will try to persuade China not to supply arms to Russia at a high-level meeting in Rome.
- The Ukrainian military is claiming cases of “mass refusals by Russian servicemen” to fight in the war on Ukraine, according the latest operational report.
- The UK defence ministry claims Russian naval forces are “effectively isolating Ukraine from international maritime trade”, its latest defence intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine reads.
- Ramzan Kadyrov, the leader of Russia’s Chechnya region, is reportedly in Ukraine alongside Russian forces, according to footage shared by Chechen television channels and posted to Kadyrov’s Telegram account.
- British prime minister Boris Johnson announced that the UK government will donate more than 500 mobile generators to Ukraine to help provide power for key buildings such as hospitals, shelters and water treatment plants.
- Russia’s state media and communication regulator, Rozcomnadzor, says Instagram will be banned, claiming the social networking site “calls for violence against Russians” as the reason behind the embargo.
- The CEO of controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI said the Ukraine defence ministry has started to use its services, according to Reuters.
- Ukrainian president Zelenskiy urged Nato to impose a no-fly zone after the attack on the military base that brought the fighting close to the Polish border. “If you don’t close our sky, it is only a matter of time before Russian rockets fall on your territory, on Nato territory,” he said.
- Russia’s defence ministry admitted responsibility for a rocket attack on the International Centre for Peacekeeping and Security, a military base, near the Polish border on Sunday.
- Desperately needed medical gear and equipment, including trauma kits, is reaching Ukraine to prop up a healthcare system grappling with a shortage of supplies amid Russia’s invasion, the World Health Organization said.
Two people were killed and three injured when a shell hit a residential building in north-west Kyiv on Monday morning, Ukraine’s state emergency services has said.
“As of 07:40, the bodies of two people were found in a nine-storey residential building, three people were hospitalised, nine people were treated on the spot,” the agency said in a statement just after 8am.
A further 15 people were reportedly rescued from the blaze and 63 evacuated with the fire extinguished just before 8am.
The nine-storey residential apartment building reportedly caught fire from Russian shelling after 5am.
Ukraine’s state emergency service published an update at 7.30am local time, saying they received a report of a fire that broke out shortly after 5am in the Obolonskyi district of the capital.
A pregnant woman seen in widely circulated images after Russian bombing of Ukrainian hospital has died with her baby, the Associated Press is reporting.
The woman was escaping the bombing of the maternity hospital where she was meant to give birth in the besieged city of Mariupol.
Images of the woman being rushed to an ambulance on a stretcher had circled the world as rescuers rushed her through the rubble.
The woman was rushed to another hospital where doctors laboured to keep her alive. Medics delivered the baby via cesarean section, but it showed “no signs of life”, surgeon Timur Marin said.
“More than 30 minutes of resuscitation of the mother didn’t produce results,” Marin said on Saturday. “Both died.”
In the chaos after Wednesday’s airstrike, medics did not have time to get the woman’s name before her husband and father came to take away her body, AP reports.
Ramzan Kadyrov, the leader of Russia’s Chechnya region, is reportedly in Ukraine alongside Russian forces, according to footage shared by Chechen television channels and posted to Kadyrov’s Telegram account.
Kadyrov posted a video on Telegram of himself on Monday in military uniform studying plans around a table with soldiers in a room.
In a message, he said that the video had been taken at Hostomel, an airfield near Kyiv, Agence France-Presse reports.
“The other day we were about 20km from you Kyiv Nazis and now we are even closer,” Kadyrov reportedly wrote as he called on Ukrainian forces to surrender “or you will be finished”.
“We will show you that Russian practice teaches warfare better than foreign theory and the recommendations of military advisers,” he added.
The Chechen television channel Grozny also posted a video on its Telegram channel earlier on Sunday that showed Kadyrov in a darkened room discussing with Chechen troops a military operation they said took place 7km (4.3 miles) from the Ukrainian capital.
The videos could not be independently verified.
Kadyrov and his forces have been accused by international NGOs of serious human rights violations in the tightly controlled Caucasus republic. He is a former rebel turned Kremlin ally who has previously described himself as Putin’s “foot soldier” with a paramilitary force at his command.
The exodus of refugees fleeing Ukraine has culminated in Europe’s biggest refugee crisis this century.
Almost 2.7 million people have fled the war in Ukraine with more than 100,000 leaving in the past 24 hours, according to the UN.
Most have fled to Poland. Krakow, the second largest city in Poland, is now struggling with the new arrivals as temporary accommodations and shelters remain full.
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