Russia-Ukraine War LIVE Updates: The war between Russia and Ukraine has entered day 44.
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The UN General Assembly voted to suspend Russia from the UN Human Rights Council as punishment for the invasion of Ukraine. Of the 193 members of the assembly, 93 voted in favour of suspension while 24 voted against and 58 abstained, in only the second ever suspension of a country from the council, after Libya in 2011.
Ukraine warned residents in the east that they have a “last chance” to flee before a major Russian offensive expected in the Donbas region. However, trains evacuating residents were halted by Russian strikes on the only line still under Kyiv’s control.
Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu of Turkey, which is hosting negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, said that the images of bodies from Bucha and other areas had “overshadowed” what had been an “emerging positive atmosphere”.
Leaders of the G7 biggest economies agreed to ban “new investments in key sectors of the Russian economy, including the energy sector”, alongside widening export bans on certain goods and tightening the screws on Russian banks and state-owned companies.
The US Congress also votes to end normal trade relations with Moscow and codify the ban on Russian oil.
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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced Friday that she was en route to the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, along with the bloc’s diplomatic chief Josep Borrell.
“Looking forward to Kyiv,” Von der Leyen wrote on Twitter accompanied by a picture of her with Borrell and Slovak Prime Minister Eduard Heger. The EU foreign chief meanwhile wrote on the platform that he was, “going to Kyiv”.
Russia-Ukraine War: Ukraine Presses On With Efforts To Evacuate Trapped Civilians
Ukraine said it aimed to establish up to 10 humanitarian corridors to evacuate trapped civilians on Friday, but civilians trying to flee besieged Mariupol will have to use private vehicles.
Outside a shelter for the displaced in western Ukraine, 84-year-old retired schoolteacher Veronika recounts how she and her family had to travel more than 1,000 kilometres to safety.
They fled Russian fire on their city of Bakhmut in the eastern Donbas region by bus and by train this week, as she turned 84.
“For my birthday, I left,” she said.
Just hours after arriving during the night in the city of Lviv, Veronika sat in the spring sun, clutching a plastic cup of warm tea.
She had spent part of the morning sheltering in a cold basement after an air raid siren went off, and was trying to warm up again. Read more
The United States is ramping up sanctions against Russia to deprive Moscow’s “war machine” of money and components needed to sustain its invasion of Ukraine, but curbing a main source of funding, Russian energy exports, will take time, U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo told Reuters on Thursday.
The United States and its allies have “a lot more that we can and we will do” to punish Moscow if Russia fails to halt its invasion, Adeyemo told Reuters in an interview. Read more
Here are updates on this story from yesterday.