According to Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk, people were evacuated from frontline cities along seven humanitarian corridors.
We compiled for this story the three most important events of the previous evening and last night in connection with the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
In Kiev, strong explosions
Ukrainian media reported two powerful explosions in Kiev on Tuesday. Air alerts have been heard in parts of Ukraine, including Odessa, Chernivtsi and Tserkasy.
Ukraine has reported airstrikes to the airport in the west, firefighting in Chernivtsi and attacks in Mykolaiv.
According to the Ukrainian Interior Ministry, the country’s forces have carried out counterattacks in Mykolaiv and the Kharkiv region.
In Mariupol, the devastation of the war is also clearly visible in recent satellite images. The Ukrainian army says it has rejected attempts by Russian forces to seize the strategically important port of Mariupol. The despair of strainers in the city continues.
More than 4,000 people were evacuated on Monday
Ukraine was able to evacuate more than 4,000 people from front-line cities along seven humanitarian corridors on Monday, Ukraine’s deputy prime minister said Iryna Vereshchuk.
According to Vereshchuk, the evacuation was unsuccessful along three other humanitarian corridors. He accused Russian forces of firing on civilians being evacuated from Kiev.
Russia has repeatedly denied firing on civilians.
A total of about 2.8 million people have fled the war in Ukraine, the UN estimates.
The protester appeared in a Russian television news studio
An anti-war protester in Ukraine ran an anti-war sign in the background of Russia’s No. 1 news broadcast on Monday night, BBC, (go to another service) Jellyfish and The New York Times.
“No war. Stop the war, don’t believe the propaganda, they’re lying to you here. The Russians are against the war,” the sign read.
The protester shouted anti-war phrases behind the anchor making the live broadcast.
– Not for war! Stop the war!
It soon became apparent that the protester Marina Ovsyannikova is an employee of a television company.
Images of a very exceptional event quickly spread around the world.
News agencies said police caught the woman.
The NGO OVD-info published a video in which Ovsyannikova, who protested on a TV broadcast, says that her father is Ukrainian and her mother is Russian. The woman says she does not see the countries as enemies. The video was made before the incident in the studio.
– Unfortunately, in recent years I worked on Channel 1 doing Kremlin propaganda and I am now very ashamed of it, he said.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi thanked the protester with his video. Zelenskyi said she is grateful to those Russians who are fighting against false information and telling the truth
Russia passed a law earlier this month that spreading “false news” in connection with the Russian military could result in up to 15 years in prison.
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