Polish, Czech and Slovenian Prime Ministers meet Zelensky. The three leaders met with President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv on Tuesday. It is the first visit by foreign leaders to the beleaguered Ukrainian capital since the start of the Russian invasion on February 24. Shortly after arriving in Kyiv by train, the three leaders discussed the situation with President Zelensky and Prime Minister Denis Chmyhal. “They are bombing everywhere. Not only kyiv but also the western regions,” Volodymyr Zelensky told them in words translated into English, on a video posted on his Telegram account.
“A dangerous moment” for Kyiv. Russian strikes are increasing in kyiv, the capital, which is living “a dangerous and difficult moment”, declared the mayor of the city, Vitali Klitschko, by decreeing a curfew from Tuesday 8 p.m. to Thursday 7 a.m. A strike on an apartment building killed at least four people, according to the mayor of kyiv, surrounded by Russian forces and emptied of at least half of its 3.5 million inhabitants.
20,000 people evacuated Tuesday from besieged Mariupol. Some 20,000 people were able to leave Mariupol, a major port city in southeastern Ukraine besieged by Russian forces, via a humanitarian corridor, announced the Ukrainian presidency. “Today, around 20,000 people left Mariupol” in 4,000 cars, deputy head of the presidential administration Kyrylo Tymoshenko said in a statement. In total, around 29,000 people were evacuated from several besieged towns across Ukraine on Tuesday alone, according to the same source.