Thousands of civilians evacuated. More than 5,000 people have been evacuated to date from the city of Sumy, located 350 km northeast of Kiev, said the deputy head of the Ukrainian presidential administration, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, quoted by Ukrainian media. In Mariupol, a major strategic port on the Sea of Azov, some 300,000 civilians remained stuck, however, according to Kiev, which accuses the Russians of not respecting the humanitarian corridor. The Russian army announced a new humanitarian truce for Wednesday morning.
The United States rejects the offer of Polish Mig-29s. The United States, while continuing its discussions with Poland, considered that Warsaw’s proposal to deliver its MIG-29 planes to the American army and then hand them over to Ukraine is not “viable”, said said the Pentagon spokesman. Poland has said it is ready to “move all its MIG-29 planes to the Ramstein base (in Germany, editor’s note) without delay and free of charge and make them available to the United States government”.
Security risks in Chernobyl. Systems for remotely monitoring nuclear materials at the Chernobyl power plant in Ukraine have stopped transmitting data to the International Atomic Energy Agency (AEIA), she said. Rafael Grossi, the head of the IAEA – the United Nations nuclear watchdog – “indicated that the remote transmission of data from the safeguards monitoring systems installed at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant had been cut off”, the IAEA said in a statement.