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 Lawyer Turkey 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 Lawyer Turkey 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
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'. In case you have just about any questions regarding where by in addition to tips on how to use Lawyer Turkey, it is possible to e-mail us with our own page.
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'.
Service members of pro-Russian troops are seen atop of tanks during Ukraine-Russia conflict on the outskirts of the besieged southern port city of Mariupol today
Service members of pro-Russian troops are seen atop of tanks during Ukraine-Russia conflict on the outskirts of the besieged southern port city of Mariupol
This satellite image illustrates what the Mariupol theatre looked like before it was reduced to rubble by Russian shelling
In this satellite photo from Planet Labs PBC, multiple civilian buildings burn amid Russian strikes on the Livoberezhnyi District of Mariupol, Ukraine, on March 20
Members of the Ukrainian Territorial Defence Force stand guard at a checkpoint in Kyiv, Ukraine today.
The war in Ukraine has sparked the fastest growing refugee crisis in Europe since World War II
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.' According to the Greek Foreign Ministry, Androulakis was the last EU diplomat to leave Mariupol.
A woman walks out of a heavily damaged building after bombing in Satoya neighborhood in Kyiv, Ukraine, today, amid damaged buildings and debris
A resident stands with her dog next to a destroyed building, amid debris, after a bombing in Satoya neighborhood in Kyiv, Ukraine today
Thirteen buildings were damaged in the attack, which targeted the Korostensky district, north of the region's main city Zhytomyr, Ukraine's state emergency services said on Facebook
Photos of damaged buildings have today been captured after three were injured in air strike on western Ukraine, emergency services said
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.
Pro-Russian separatists seemed to be carrying out strip-searches on some of the fleeing Ukrainian civilians in Mariupol on Sunday
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 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.
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