Boris Johnson is considering a lightning trip to Kyiv to show support for Ukraine's battle against Vladimir Putin.
The Prime Minister has asked officials to examine the practicality and value of the trip to the Ukrainian capital for talks with president Volodymyr Zelensky.
Security officials are said to be 'having kittens' at the prospect of the PM travelling to a war zone; from which ten million have fled, UN High Commissioner Filippo Grandi said on Sunday.
But a Whitehall source said Mr Johnson 'wants to go' if it can be made to work.
The source added: 'If you set aside the security concerns, which are considerable, the question is whether there is anything additional you could achieve by visiting in person, or whether it would just be a show of solidarity, and whether that is a sufficient goal in itself.'





Rescuers work at a site of a shopping mall damaged by an airstrike, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, in Kyiv, Ukraine today

But the situation last night in Kyiv showed how difficult it would be to ensure the Prime Minister's safety if he does visit.
Mayor Vitali Klitschko shared pictures of what appeared to be an explosion in the distance in the city's Podil district.
In a tweet he reported claims of several explosions, 'in particular, according to information at the moment, some houses and in one of the shopping centres'. 
Klitschko added that 'rescuers, medics and police are already in place' and reported 'at this time - one victim'.

It is unclear if he referred to a fatality or injury.

















Mayor Vitali Klitschko shared pictures of what appears to be an explosion in the distance in the city's Podil district






Olga holds her baby as her husband Dmytro stands by her side.

The 27-year-old Ukrainian woman seriously wounded while sheltering her baby from shrapnel

Another post from the mayor said: 'Rescuers are extinguishing a large fire in one of the shopping centres in the Podolsk district of the capital.
All services - rescue, medics, police - work on site. The information is being clarified.'
More devastating scenes continue to emerge from near the city, as seventeen-year-old Bogdan was pictured heavily injured following Friday's fighting in Brovary, east of the capital Kyiv. 
The teenager, with his arms in a splint and his face bloodied and bruised, was photographed having a cigarette after he and his family were saved by Ukrainian forces. 
He told : 'For two days, I was freezing, and in so much pain.'
His mother and stepfather also suffered burns from missiles which wrecked the house as the family for two days waited for help.
The prime ministers of Poland, Slovenia and the Czech Republic made a trip to Kyiv last week. 
'I have a very, very strong desire to support him [Zelensky] in any way I can. Whether that would be a useful way of showing my support I don't know but it is of huge strategic, political, economic, moral importance for Putin to fail and Zelensky to succeed,' Mr Johnson told The Sunday Times.
It came as Chancellor Rishi Sunak yesterday moved to defuse a row caused by a Tory spring conference speech at the weekend, in which the PM appeared to link Ukraine's battle for freedom against Putin with Britain's vote to leave the EU.





His mother and stepfather also suffered burns from missiles which wrecked the house as the family for two days waited for help






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He said: 'The instinct of the people of this country, like the people of Ukraine, to choose freedom, every time... When the British people voted for Brexit, in such large, large numbers, I don't believe it was because they were remotely hostile to foreigners.
'It's because they wanted to be free to do things differently and for this country to be able to run itself.' 
But Mr Sunak said: 'He was talking about freedom in general.

Those two situations are not directly comparable and no one thinks that they are.'
Labour's shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves urged the PM to apologise for the 'crass remarks'. 


 



Surrender city of Mariupol TONIGHT or face 'terrible humanitarian catastrophe': Russia issues horrifying ultimatum to Ukraine after bombing art school sheltering 400 and sending thousands hundreds of miles in mass deportations
Elmira Tanatarova, Stephen Wynn-Davis and Chris Matthews for MailOnline and AFP 
Russia called on Ukrainian forces in Mariupol to lay down their arms, saying a 'terrible humanitarian catastrophe' was unfolding as it said defenders who did so were guaranteed safe passage out of the city and humanitarian corridors would be opened from it at 10am Moscow time (7am GMT) on Monday.
However, Ukraine rejected the offer as Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Irina Vereshchuk said no and called on Russian forces to stop 'wasting time on eight pages of letters' and 'just open the corridor'.
She told news outlet Ukrainian Pravda: 'There can be no talk of any surrender, laying down of arms.

We have already informed the Russian side about this.'
Residents were given until 5am Monday to respond to the offer, which included them raising a white flag; Russia didn't say what action it would take if the offer was rejected. 
Russian Col.
Gen. Mikhail Mizintsev said forces would allow two corridors out of Mariupol - one heading east toward Russia or another, west, to other areas of Ukraine. 
Fighting continued inside the besieged city on Sunday, regional governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said, without elaborating, as claims today came that thousands from the port city are being taken for forced labour into remote parts of Russia.
The Mariupol City Council said in a statement: 'The occupiers are forcing people to leave Ukraine for Russia.

Over the past week, several thousand Mariupol residents have been taken to the Russian territory.' 
The council also claimed that Mariupol evacuees' cellphones and documents were inspected by Russian troops before they were sent to 'remote cities in Russia'.
Ukrainian lawmaker Inna Sovsun told Times Radio that according to the mayor and city council in Mariupol, those citizens are going to so-called filtration camps and 'then they're being relocated to very distant parts of Russia, where they're being forced to sign papers that they will stay in that area for two or three years and they will work for free in those areas.' 
Russia and Ukraine have made agreements throughout the war on humanitarian corridors to evacuate civilians, but have accused each other of frequent violations of those.
The Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine on Sunday said that 2,973 people have been evacuated from Mariupol since March 5, including 541 over the last 24 hours. 
This comes as on Sunday Boris Johnson asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky what his military requires in Ukraine's battle against Russia's invasion as both leaders 'agreed to step up their direct communication', No 10 has said. 
The Prime Minister 'set out his intention to advance Ukraine's interests at this week's Nato and G7 meetings and in upcoming bilateral engagement with key allies,' according to a Downing Street spokeswoman.
Mr Johnson 'asked for the president's latest assessment of Ukraine's military requirements in the face of Russian aggression' and 'outlined the UK's ongoing commitment to work alongside international partners to co-ordinate support to strengthen Ukraine's self-defence'.













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The last EU diplomat to evacuate the besieged Ukrainian port said: 'What I saw, I hope no one will ever see.'
Greece's consul general in Mariupol, Manolis Androulakis, left the city on Tuesday.
After a four-day trip through Ukraine he crossed to Romania through Moldavia, along with 10 other Greek nationals.
As he arrived in Athens on Sunday, Mr Androulakis said: 'Mariupol will become part of a list of cities that were completely destroyed by war; I don't need to name them- they are Guernica, Coventry, Aleppo, Grozny, Leningrad.'
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Three have today been injured in air strike on western Ukraine, emergency services said, as thirteen buildings were damaged in the attack, which targeted the Korostensky district north of the region's main city Zhytomyr.
'Three people were injured,' a Facebook post from Ukraine's emergency services added, posting images of burning buildings and scattered charred debris.
Also on Sunday, Russia's defence ministry said its 'high-precision missiles' hit a training centre of Ukrainian special forces in Zhytomyr region, around 150 kilometres (90 miles) west of Ukraine's capital Kyiv.
'More than 100 (Ukrainian) servicemen of the special forces and foreign mercenaries were destroyed,' in the attack, the ministry said.
Terrifying footage has emerged apparently showing Russia firing deadly thermobaric TOS-1A rockets, which can allegedly melt human organs.
Moscow defence sources claimed: 'The TOS-1A Solntsepek was used against Ukrainian nationalists by the people's militia of the Donetsk People's Republic with the support of the Russian army during a special operation in Ukraine.'
Earlier Zelensky also said Russia's siege of the port city was 'a terror that will be remembered for centuries to come'. 
His comments came after local authorities said Russian troops had forcefully deported several thousand people from the besieged city last week, after Russia had spoken of 'refugees' arriving from the strategic port. 
'Over the past week, several thousand Mariupol residents were deported onto the Russian territory,' the city council said in a statement on its Telegram channel late on Saturday. 
'The occupiers illegally took people from the Livoberezhniy district and from the shelter in the sports club building, where more than a thousand people (mostly women and children) were hiding from the constant bombing.'
 Zelensky said the siege of Mariupol would 'go down in history of responsibility for war crimes'.
'To do this to a peaceful city...

is a terror that will be remembered for centuries to come.' 
Meanwhile, authorities in Ukraine's eastern city of Kharkiv say at least five civilians, including a nine-year-old boy, have been killed in the latest Russian shelling. 
This comes as Ukraine's Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba has on Twitter posted about protests in Energodar, a city in the country's north-west oblast, following claims that Russian forces have abducted its deputy mayor.
Mr Kuleba's tweet said: 'Brave Ukrainians in Energodar hold a peaceful protest demanding to release deputy mayor Ivan Samoidyuk who was abducted by Russian invaders.

Russians thought they could impose their authoritarian rules in democratic Ukraine. Instead, they need to go home.'
Earlier this month President Zelensky demanded the release of Melitopol's mayor after his alleged kidnap by Russian troops, which sparked local protests.
The Ukrainian leader said the capture was an 'attempt to bring the city to its knees' and demanded the immediate release of Ivan Fedorov, the mayor of the besieged city. 
Mr Fedorov is understood to have been released according to Ukrainian authorities, reports.  
Zelensky today also urged Israel to 'make its choice' and abandon its effort to maintain neutrality towards the invasion. 
The Ukrainian leader, who is Jewish, made the appeal during an address to Israeli lawmakers, the latest in a series of speeches by videoconference to foreign legislatures.
In remarks that at several points compared Russian aggression to the Holocaust, [url=http://192.41.27.51/mediawiki/User:AlenaSells]Lawyer Law Firm Turkish Zelensky said that 'Ukraine made the choice to save Jews 80 years ago.'
'Now it's time for Israel to make its choice.'
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has walked a careful diplomatic line since Russia launched its invasion on February 24.
Stressing Israel's strong ties to Moscow and Kyiv, Bennett has sought to preserve delicate security cooperation with Russia, which has troops in Syria, across Israel's northern border.
He has held regular phone calls with Zelensky and Vladimir Putin, including a three-hour meeting with the Russian President at the Kremlin on March 5.
While Ukrainian officials have voiced appreciation for Bennett's mediation efforts, Zelensky today implied that this too had proven to be a misstep.
'We can mediate between states but not between good and evil,' the Ukrainian leader said. 













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Pro-Russian separatists gave directions to civilians trying to escape the heavily bombarded city of Mariupol 












Previous humanitarian corridors in the war-torn country had failed after Russia allegedly bombed civilians who were trying to leave

Chancellor Rishi Sunak has said that the West needs to have a 'degree of scepticism' about the prospect of a peace deal between Russia and Ukrainevas Kyiv looked to stand firm against giving up territory in a settlement. 
Speaking today, the Chancellor said it is 'encouraging' that discussions are under way but the West has to be on its guard.
Mr Sunak told Sky News' Sophy Ridge On Sunday programme: 'You have to have some degree of scepticism about it given the track record of these things.
'I think the most important thing is that any talk of a settlement must be on Ukraine's terms.
'And the best thing we can do is just maintain the significant pressure that we are bringing to bear on Putin, but also providing support to the Ukrainians in istanbul Lawyer the meantime - that's the best we can do and the Ukrainians will take the lead.'
An official in Mr Zelensky's office told the Associated Press that the main subject discussed between the two sides last week was whether Russian troops would remain in separatist regions in eastern Ukraine after the war and where the borders would lie.
But a Ukraine politician said while her country is open to further meetings with Russia, it is not prepared to give up land to the aggressor.
Olha Stefanishyna, deputy prime minister for European and Euro-Atlantic integration, told Sky News that re-drawing Ukraine's borders is 'absolutely not' being considered.
'Ukrainian territory is a territory which has been fixed (since) 1991,' she said.
'That is not an option for discussion.'
According to reports, Kyiv has insisted on the inclusion of one or more Western nuclear powers in the negotiations with the Kremlin and on legally binding security guarantees for Ukraine.
Asked whether the UK would act as a security guarantor to the Ukrainians as part of any peace deal, Mr Sunak - who confirmed his family will not be taking in a Ukrainian refugee - said it is 'probably a bit too early to get into the details' of what an agreement might look like. 
Elsewhere, Boris Johnson has urged China to get off the fence and join in global condemnation of Russia's invasion.
The Prime Minister, in comments made to the Sunday Times, said he believes some in Xi Jinping's administration are having 'second thoughts' about the neutral stance adopted by Beijing following Russia's actions against its neighbour. 
But today China's ambassador to the US defended his country's refusal to condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine. 
Speaking with CBS's 'Face the Nation' Qin Gang said condemnation 'doesn't solve the problem'.
He said: 'I would be surprised if Russia will back down by condemnation.'
Mr Gang added: '(China) will continue to promote peace talks and urge immediate fire.
'And, you know, condemnation, you know, only, doesn't help.

We need wisdom. We need courage and we need good diplomacy.'
Zelensky also said peace talks with Russia were needed although they were 'not easy and pleasant'. He said he discussed the course of the talks with French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday.
'Ukraine has always sought a peaceful solution. Moreover, we are interested in peace now,' he said.
Vladimir Putin has reportedly 'finally agreed' to meet in person with Zelensky for peace talks.
So far the negotiations have been between middle men on neutral ground but the war has continued into its fourth week.
The Russian tyrant will allegedly meet President Zelensky 'at some point', the reported. 
The two leaders have let their diplomatic teams conduct peace talks on the neutral ground since shortly after the start of the conflict on February 24, but a BBC correspondent has confirmed the two will meet in person.
Putin has come to terms with fact he will have to lead the negotiations at some time in the future, the BBC's Lysa Doucet said.
She said: 'The diplomats are talking, the negotiators are talking.

We understand President Putin has finally agreed that he will meet, at some point, President Zelensky who has been asking for a meeting since January. 
'He hasn't said it in public, he says quite the opposite in public.'
She added: 'The Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is very busy, the [url=https://www.wiklundkurucuk.com/Turkey-Law-Firm-ma]Turkish Lawyer Law Firm President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is very busy. 























The Ukrainian cannon seemed to aim at the Russian tank's tracks in a bid to put the vehicles out of order












The tanks had been painted with a white 'Z', which has quickly become a symbol for Russia in its war with Ukraine

'They've said privately their understanding is that President Putin will meet President Zelensky when the time is right.

But the time is not right now.' 
Meanwhile, Russia's military isn't even recovering the bodies of its soldiers in some places, Zelensky said.
'In places where there were especially fierce battles, the bodies of Russian soldiers simply pile up along our line of defence.
And no one is collecting these bodies,' he said.
He described a battle near Chornobayivka in the south, where Ukrainian forces held their positions and six times beat back the Russians, who just kept 'sending their people to slaughter'. 
Russian news agencies, citing the country's defence ministry, have said buses carrying several hundred people - which Moscow calls refugees - have been arriving in Russia from Mariupol in recent days. 











Service members of pro-Russian troops drive an armoured vehicle in Mariupol, Ukraine on March 19












Earlier on Sunday Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia's siege of the port city of Mariupol was 'a terror that will be remembered for centuries to come'












Ukrainian firefighters and security teams at the scene of a building hit by Russian missiles in Kyiv, Ukraine, March 20 












A woman holding a pug walks away from the the scene of a building hit by Russian missiles in Kyiv, Ukraine, on March 20

The governor of the northeastern Sumy region, Dmytro Zhyvytskyy, said Sunday that 71 infants have been safely evacuated via a humanitarian corridor. 
Zhyvytskyy said on Facebook that the orphans will be taken to an unspecified foreign country.

He said most of them require constant medical attention. Like many other Ukrainian cities, Sumy has been besieged by Russian troops and faced repeated shelling. 
Meanwhile, the Russian military says it has carried out a new series of strikes on Ukrainian military facilities with long-range hypersonic and cruise missiles. 























Saved: A Ukrainian recruit was rescued after 30 hours from debris of the military school hit by Russian rockets, in Mykolaiv, southern Ukraine, on March 19

A Russian attack on a barracks for young Ukrainian recruits in the middle of the night that killed at least 50 young Ukrainian recruits was branded as 'cowardly'.
Russian rockets struck the military school in Mykolaiv, southern Ukraine, on Friday, killing dozens of young Ukrainian ensigns at their brigade headquarters. 
Ukrainian soldier Maxim, 22, who was at the barracks, said 'no fewer than 200 soldiers were sleeping in the barracks' at the time of the strike.
'At least 50 bodies have been recovered, but we do not know how many others are in the rubble,' he said.
Vitaly Kim, the governor of Mykolaiv, said Russia 'hit our sleeping soldiers with a rocket in a cowardly manner.'
Meanwhile Olga Malarchuk, a military official, said: 'We aren't allowed to say anything because the rescue operation isn't over and the families haven't all been informed.
'We are not yet able to announce a toll and I cannot tell you how many soldiers were present'.
Russia also said it had fired a second 'unstoppable' hypersonic Kinzhal missile at a fuel depot in Kostyantynivka, in the southern region of Mykolaiv.
A MiG-31K jet fired the aeroballistic missile at the warehouse as it was flying over Crimea.
Major General Igor Konashenkov, from the Russian Defence Ministry, said the target was the main supply of fuel for Ukrainian armoured cars in the south of the country. 
He claimed the missile had destroyed the depot.

It is the second time Russia says it has used the missile in Ukraine, after a weapons storage site was destroyed in Deliatyn, in the Carpathian Mountains in western Ukraine, on Friday.
NATO deem the weapon so powerful it has been nicknamed The Sizzler.  











Russian forces carried out a large-scale air strike on Mykolaiv, killing at least 50 Ukrainian soldiers at their brigade headquarters









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Hypersonic missiles differ from ballistic ones in that they travel closer to the earth and as such can largely avoid radar detection 

'The enemy targeted our depots' but 'we have no information of the type of missile,' he said.

'There has been damage, destruction and the detonation of munitions. They are using all the missiles in their arsenal against us.'   
Russia reportedly first used the weapon during its military campaign in Syria in 2016 to support the Assad regime, although it was unclear if this was the same model.
Some of the most intense bombing came in 2016 during the battle for Aleppo, resulting in hundreds of civilian deaths.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has termed the missile 'an ideal weapon' that flies at 10 times the speed of sound, which is 7672.69 miles per hour, and can overcome air-defence systems.











Major General Igor Konashenkov, from the Russian Defence Ministry, said the target was the main supply of fuel for Ukrainian armoured cars in the south of the country.

He claimed the missile had destroyed the depot. Pictured: The Russian pilot flying the fighter jet













Deliatyn, a picturesque village in the foothills of the picturesque Carpathian mountains, is located outside the city of Ivano-Frankivsk. The region of Ivano-Frankivsk shares a 30-mile long border with NATO member Romania. 
Konashenkov noted that the Kalibr cruise missiles launched by Russian warships from the Caspian Sea were also involved in the strike on the fuel depot in Kostiantynivka.

He said Kalibr missiles launched from the Black Sea were used to destroy an armor repair plant in Nizhyn in the Chernihiv region in northern Ukraine.
Konashenkov added that another strike by air-launched missiles hit a Ukrainian facility in Ovruch in the northern Zhytomyr region where foreign fighters and Ukrainian special forces were based.
The British defense ministry said the Ukrainian Air Force and air defense forces are 'continuing to effectively defend Ukrainian airspace'.
'Russia has failed to gain control of the air and is largely relying on stand-off weapons launched from the relative safety of Russian airspace to strike targets within Ukraine', the ministry said on Twitter. 
'Gaining control of the air was one of Russia's principal objectives for the opening days of the conflict and their continued failure to do so has significantly blunted their operational progress.' 
A Ukrainian military official meanwhile confirmed to a Ukrainian newspaper that Russian forces carried out a missile strike Friday on a missile and ammunition warehouse in the Deliatyn settlement of the Ivano-Frankivsk region in western Ukraine.
But Ukraine's Air Forces spokesman Yurii Ihnat told Ukrainskaya Pravda on Saturday that it has not been confirmed that the missile was indeed a hypersonic Kinzhal.  
Russia also boasted in a chilling newly-released video how it is using adapted Israeli reconnaissance combat drone technology to kill in Ukraine.
The footage shows a Forpost-R destroying a battery of Ukrainian howitzers and military hardware.
Israel six years ago stopped supplying components for the drone - but Russia still has a force of around 100.
The Russian defence ministry said: 'Unmanned aerial vehicles of the Aerospace Forces carried out missile strikes on a self-propelled artillery battery of 122mm howitzers and military hardware of the Ukrainian armed forces.
'A battery of self-propelled artillery guns, armoured vehicles and vehicles were destroyed by airborne weapons.'
The import-substituted Forpost-R drone is a licensed version of the Israeli Searcher MkII.
The drone was supplied to Russia but was designed exclusively for reconnaissance.
It is an improved and indigenised model variant of the Forpost (Outpost), the Israeli Searcher Mk II UAV assembled by Yekaterinburg-based Ural Civil Aviation Plant.
From 2016, Israel stopped supplying components to Russia, apparently under pressure from the US, triggering the move by the Kremlin to adapt the drone.
The Forpost-R unmanned combat aerial vehicle was first seen a week ago deployed by Russia in the current conflict.
The video is believed to show the combat drone taking off from Gomel, in Belarus, and striking at targets in Ukraine.
Mariupol, a key connection to the Black Sea, has been a target since the start of the war on February 24, when Russian President Vladimir Putin launched what he calls a 'special military operation' to demilitarise and 'denazify' Ukraine.

Ukraine and the West say Putin launched an unprovoked war of aggression.
As Russia has sought to seize most of Ukraine's southern coast, Mariupol has assumed great importance, lying between the Russian-annexed peninsula of Crimea to the west and the Donetsk region to the east, which is partially controlled by pro-Russian separatists.
The U.N.
human rights office said at least 847 civilians had been killed and 1,399 wounded in Ukraine as of Friday. The Ukrainian prosecutor general's office said 112 children have been killed. 
Rescue workers on Sunday were still searching for survivors in a Mariupol theatre that local authorities say was flattened by Russian air strikes on Wednesday.

Russia denies hitting the theatre or targeting civilians. 
Satellite images, released on Saturday, showed the collapsed remains of the building which was sheltering hundreds of children and their families before being levelled in a Russian airstrike.
More than 1,300 people, including women and babies, are still feared trapped in the bombed ruins of the theatre in the besieged city of Mariupol as rescue efforts are hampered by constant Russian shelling. 
Their prospects of survival are growing bleaker by the day, with no supplies and Russian troops firing at rescuers trying to dig through the rubble.
Last night a local MP said those inside were forced to dig from within the wreckage because rescue attempts had been thwarted by ongoing airstrikes.










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More than 1,300 people including women and babies are still feared trapped in the bombed ruins of a theatre in the besieged city of Mariupol (pictured)










The helpless casualties were yesterday forced to spend a third night entombed in the basement of the destroyed Drama Theatre which was hit by Vladimir Putin's forces on Wednesday












109 empty baby carriages on display in Lviv city center for the 109 babies killed so far during Russia's invasion of Ukraine

Former governor MP Serhiy Taruta said he fears many survivors will die because the city's emergency services have been destroyed by Russian troops.
'Services that are supposed to help are demolished, rescue and utility services are physically destroyed.

This means that all the survivors of the bombing will either die under the ruins of the theatre, or have already died,' he wrote on Facebook.
He said those trapped had been left to dig their way out of the collapsed three-storey building.
'People are doing everything themselves.
My friends went to help but due to constant shelling it was not safe.'
However Mariupol MP Dmytro Gurin insisted that while the rescue mission had been hampered by constant Russian attacks, efforts were still under way.
One woman said the strike had taken place while those sheltering beneath the theatre were cooking and only around 100 had time to flee.
Nick Osychenko, the CEO of a Mariupol TV station, said as he fled the city with six members of his family, aged between 4 and 61, he saw dead bodies on nearly every block.
'We were careful and didn't want the children to see the bodies, so we tried to shield their eyes,' he said.

'We were nervous the whole journey. It was frightening, just frightening.'
Russia has denied responsibility for the devastating strike which was branded a 'war crime' and sparked global outrage.
After an agonising first night of uncertainty following the bombing, Ukrainian officials revealed on Thursday that they were hopeful that the majority within had survived.
Rescuers said that while the entrance to the basement had caved in, the relatively modern shelter had remained intact.
But Miss Denisova said that while some had survived, the situation remained unclear.
She said there was 'currently no information about the dead or wounded under the rubble' and called the attack 'an act of genocide and a terrible crime against humanity'.
Ukraine's Minister of Defence Oleksii Reznikov branded the Russian pilot behind the bombing a 'monster'.
But the Kremlin's UN ambassador Vasily Nebenzya yesterday denied that Russia had targeted the shelter. 











A woman and her baby are pictured fleeing the city of Mariupol along a humanitarian corridor that was opened on Thursday, though previous attempts have failed after Russians shelled the routes


















An aerial view shows smoke rising from damaged residential buildings following an explosion in Mariupol on Friday


















A woman weeps after seeing the ruins of her destroyed block of flat in Mariupol, which is under bombardment by Russia


















A heavily bombed building is seen in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, after being destroyed by Russian shelling of the city


















In its sunlit cobbled central square, Lawyer Law Firm Turkish one Ukrainian city hosts a poignant protest at the innocent lives lost in the fighting
























Video released by pro-Putin Chechen warlord Ramzan Kadyrov shows heavily armed fighters from the region pounding a high-rise building in the bombed-out city during a fierce gunfight with Ukrainian soldiers

 











Putin spoke in front of a crowd tens of thousands strong at the Luzhniki World Cup stadium in Moscow, one of the few times he has been seen in public since launching his invasion 23 days ago
























Putin called the rally to mark the eighth anniversary of 'annexing' Crimea, speaking of 'de-Nazifying' the peninsula and of debunked claims of 'genocide' in the Donbass

Zelensky has also ordered to suspend activities of 11 political parties with links to Russia.
The largest of them is the Opposition Platform for Life, which has 44 out of 450 seats in the country's parliament.

The party is led by Viktor Medvedchuk, who has friendly ties with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is the godfather of Medvedchuk's daughter.
Also on the list is the Nashi (Ours) party led by Yevheniy Murayev. Before the Russian invasion. the British authorities had warned that Russia wanted to install Murayev as the leader of Ukraine.
Speaking in a video address early Sunday, Zelenskyy said that 'given a large-scale war unleashed by the Russian Federation and links between it and some political structures, the activities of a number of political parties is suspended for the period of the martial Turkey Law Firm.' He added that 'activities by politicians aimed at discord and collaboration will not succeed.'
Zelenskyy's announcement follows the introduction of the martial law that envisages a ban on parties associated with Russia.
Meanwhile feared Chechen special forces are fighting house-to-house in the besieged port city.
Video said to have been released by pro-Putin Chechen warlord Ramzan Kadyrov shows heavily armed fighters from the region pounding a high-rise building in the bombed-out city during a fierce gunfight with Ukrainian soldiers.
The propaganda video then cuts before showing some of the Chechen fighters emerging from the building with children in their arms while supposedly 'liberating' civilians.
Russia's defence ministry said on Friday that its troops have now entered the city and are fighting in the centre, amid fears that it could soon fall into Putin's hands after three weeks of shelling weakened the defences.

If the city does fall, it will be the largest captured so-far - albeit at the cost of near-totally destroying it. 
Svitlana Zlenko, who said she left the city with her son on Tuesday this week, described how she spent days sheltering in a school building - melting snow to cook pasta to eat while living in constant terror of Russian bombs which flew overhead 'every day and every night'.  
She described how a bomb hit the school last week, wounding a woman in the hip with a piece of shrapnel.

'She was lying on the first floor of the high school all night and prayed for poison so that she would not feel pain,' Svitlana said. '[She] was taken by the Red Cross within a day, I pray to God she is well.'
She added: 'There is no food, no medicine, if there is no snow with such urban fights, people will not be able to go out to get water, people have no water left.
Pharmacies, grocery stores - everything is robbed or burned.
'The dead are not taken out. Police recommend to the relatives of those who died of a natural death, to open the windows and lay the bodies on the balcony. I know you think you understand, but you will never understand unless you were there.

I pray that this will not happen again in any of the cities of Ukraine, or of the world.'
Despite the pleas, shelling was well underway in other Ukrainian cities on Friday - with Lviv, in the west of the country, the capital Kyiv, and Kharkiv, in the east, coming under fire.  
The war launched by Russian President Vladimir Putin ground into its fourth week as his troops have failed to take Kyiv - a major objective in their hopes of forcing a settlement or dictating the country's future political alignments.
But back home in Moscow, Putin today gave a tub-thumping speech to tens of thousands of banner-waving Russians in an attempt to drum up support for his stalled invasion.