Elsewhere, civilians continue to be evacuated from Mariupol, while Interior Minister Priti Patel is facing legal action for delays in the visa system for Ukrainian refugees fleeing the war. Boris Johnson will address the Ukrainian parliament today via live video, the first world leader to speak at the Verkhovna Rada since the start of the war. Read the latest developments below and you can be informed about the news on our live blog here:
1. Ukraine “passed the point of negotiations”
Ukraine’s ambassador to the United Kingdom, Vadym Prystaiko, told ITV’s Good Morning Britain: “When we had the opportunity to negotiate with them and reach some form of neutrality, neutrality itself was seen as a political substitute. “Now, these negotiations have stopped, for obvious reasons after the atrocities in Bucha. Many Ukrainians can not even imagine how we could sit at the negotiating table with these people now. “Reasonable politicians will remind us that we really have to sit at the table, because all the worst wars have come in the form of negotiations. But, frankly, many Ukrainians believe that we must physically defeat them now. “Maybe this is better for the Russians. Maybe they can see that this regime is overthrowing them together with the whole of Russia.”
2. Thousands were transported from Ukraine to Russia
More than 11,500 people, including 1,847 children, were transported from Ukraine to Russia on Monday without the involvement of the Kiev authorities, the Russian Defense Ministry said. The figure includes evacuations from Russian-backed breakaway regions of Ukraine, the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics. Russia has said no people were evacuated at its own request, while Ukraine has accused Moscow of forcibly deporting thousands of people to Russia since the start of the war. “The mayor of Mariupol’s office told a US ambassador that Russia had about four so-called ‘filtering camps’ in and around Mariupol, which are said to be used to process Ukrainian civilians before being transferred to Russia.”
3. The evacuations of citizens in Mariupol continue
The evacuation of citizens from Mariupol is going to continue on Tuesday, announced the municipal council of Mariupol. 100,000 civilians are still trapped in the city, including more than 200 who are still with fighters at the Azovstal steel plant, said city mayor Vadym Boychenko. The ceasefire was agreed with the help of the United Nations and the Red Cross. It comes after Russian forces resumed pulverizing the Azovstal steel plant on Monday after a brief ceasefire over the weekend. The escort was to depart from a roundabout near Berdyansk, a Russian-occupied city west of Mariupol, at 7 a.m. local time.
