The Prime Ministers of Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovenia will meet with the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky in Kiev.
Citing the Czech media, the BBC says the meeting started at 8 pm Finnish time.
The Prime Minister of Poland Mateusz Morawiecki, The Prime Minister of the Czech Republic Petr Fiala and the Prime Minister of Slovenia Janez Jansa will also meet with the Prime Minister of Ukraine during his visit Denys Shmyhalin.
The troika will visit the country as representatives of the European Council. The aim is to show that the European Union as a whole supports Ukraine’s independence. The prime ministers traveled to the city by train.
A new 35-hour curfew has been imposed on Kiev due to Russia’s latest airstrikes on Tuesday evening from 8 p.m.
Russia made three free strikes on residential areas in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, on Tuesday, the AFP news agency reported.
More than three million people have already fled the war
According to the UN, more than three million people have already fled the war in Ukraine since Russia invaded the country almost three weeks ago.
Nearly half of the fugitives, 1.4 million, are children. More than half, or 1.7 million, have fled to Ukraine’s neighboring country, Poland. Many have also ended up in Romania, Moldova, Hungary or Slovakia.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky according to AFP, 97 children have died so far since the war began.
Satellite images shed light on the devastation of Mariupol
Recent satellite imagery revealed the devastation caused by military attacks in the besieged city of Mariupol, among others.
Satellite images taken on Monday by U.S. space technology company Maxar showed a hole in the wall of a regional intensive care hospital in Mariupol. Parts of the building have also spread outside the hospital.
According to CNN, it is unclear which party is behind the damage to the hospital.
Residential buildings near the hospital building appear to have suffered significant damage and one appears to have been damaged by fire. A second mile south of the hospital, numerous buildings seem to smoke in the wake of some sort of attack.
In addition, residential buildings in the city center have been damaged.
Difficulties in supplying relief supplies to Mariupol
Nearly 20,000 people have been evacuated from the besieged port city of Mariupol in the south of the country, sources in the Ukrainian presidential office say.
Instead, aid supplies sent to Mariupol are stuck for the third day in the nearby port city of Berdyansk, which has been taken over by Russian troops.
The situation of the residents still in Mariupol is desperate because there is hardly any food or clean water in the city anymore.
Red Cross: more than a hundred evacuation buses have left the city of Sumy
Thousands of civilians are being evacuated from the city of Sumy in the north-east of the country, according to the BBC. According to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), more than a hundred evacuation buses have left the city in two convoys.
The evacuations have been organized in cooperation with the ICRC and the Ukrainian Red Cross.
According to the ICRC, Russia has given the green light to civilian evacuations, but buses may still not be able to follow the most direct route to Poltava in central the country.
Sumy, besieged by Russian forces, has been the target of gunfire and airstrikes in recent days.