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RUSSIA ALLOWS SOME EVACUATIONS BUT MARIUPOL ATTACKS REPORTED

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 1. The UN has told the BBC that the number of refugees fleeing the war in
    Ukraine has passed two million
 2. People are fleeing the north-eastern city of Sumy, and Irpin, near Kyiv,
    after ceasefires were agreed to allow civilians to escape
 3. However, Ukrainian officials say Russia is shelling an evacuation route from
    the besieged southern city of Mariupol
 4. In the past few days, several evacuation plans have collapsed amid continued
    Russian attacks
 5. UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace says Russian troops have not progressed as
    they hoped and are now "getting more desperate"
 6. Shell says it will immediately stop all spot purchases of Russian crude oil
    following criticism
 7. The Russian deputy PM has warned that Moscow could retaliate against
    European sanctions by cutting off natural gas to the bloc

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 1.  Posted at 12:4912:49
     
     
     INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY MARKED WITH SMALL GIFTS AND ACTS OF COURAGE
     
     Lyse Doucet
     
     Chief International Correspondent
     
     BBCCopyright: BBC
     Tulips offer a glimpse of life as it was in a basement in KyivImage
     caption: Tulips offer a glimpse of life as it was in a basement in Kyiv
     
     In Ukraine, 8 March - International Women’s Day - is the 13th day of
     Russia’s invasion.
     
     Elderly women, bent with age and illness, step cautiously across a rickety
     plank of a bridge in Irpin, fleeing Russia’s incessant shelling.
     
     Women give birth in basement bunkers and bomb shelters across the country.
     
     Ukrainians are marking what is always an important day in their calendar
     with everyday acts of courage - even as millions of women and young girls
     are on the run, under fire, or trapped in their homes under ferocious
     bombardment and fast dwindling supplies.
     
     My colleague Orla Guerin met young Olga last week, a volunteer teaching
     first aid to other volunteers who’ve signed up to fight with Ukraine’s
     Territorial Defence. The BBC’s Sarah Rainsford met women in Dnipro stuffing
     bottles to make Molotov cocktails.
     
     In a Kyiv basement, Diana works night and day to help provide for people,
     and tells me she always wears red to keep up her spirits.
     
     Flowers and chocolates are the usual gifts of this day.
     
     MP Lesia Vasylenko tweets that she received a small sweet this year,
     instead of a big bouquet of flowers; she describes it as the “biggest and
     sweetest gift” of her life.
     
     Even as war shreds so much, Ukrainians hold on to what’s left of the lives
     they once knew.
     
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 2.  Posted at 12:4212:42
     
     
     UKRAINE SAYS RUSSIA DISRUPTING EVACUATION IN SEVERAL REGIONS
     
     We're trying to piece together a picture of what's happening with
     evacuations in Ukrainian towns and cities today. Here's what we know so
     far:
     
     Mariupol
     
     Both the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry's spokesman Oleg Nikolenko, and the
     Ukrainian Defence Ministry have accused Russian forces of shelling the
     humanitarian corridor out of the key southern city.
     
     Eight lorries and 30 buses are on their way to deliver humanitarian aid to
     the city and to evacuate civilians to Zaporizhzhya, Nikolenko said, but we
     don't know if those lorries will be able to go in.
     
     It is unclear if anyone has been able to leave.
     
     BBCCopyright: BBC
     
     Sumy
     
     An evacuation column from the besieged city of Sumy has arrived in Poltava
     region - further away from the Russian border - the Poltava regional
     administration says.
     
     The corridor is scheduled to be open until 19:00 GMT today.
     
     BBCCopyright: BBC
     
     Bucha
     
     Russian forces are sabotaging an evacuation effort from Bucha District in
     Kyiv region, the head of the Kyiv regional administration, Oleksiy Kuleba,
     says.
     
     "The district is preparing for mass evacuation of people and humanitarian
     aid supply. A ceasefire is necessary for this," Kuleba said.
     
     He said people had been able to leave the nearby town of Irpin over the
     past 24 hours.
     
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 3.  Reality Check
     
     Posted at 12:2612:26
     
     
     WHAT’S GOING ON IN CALAIS WITH VISAS FOR UKRAINIANS?
     
     There are about 600 Ukrainian refugees in Calais, and some say they have
     been turned back by UK Border Force officials for not having the right
     paperwork.
     
     Up until now people in Calais have been told to go to Paris to apply for
     their visa.
     
     But on Monday, Home Secretary Priti Patel told MPs: “I confirm that we have
     set up a bespoke VAC (Visa Application Centre) en route to Calais but away
     from the port."
     
     When we asked the Home Office for more details, they told us: “We are in
     the process of establishing a second Visa Application Centre in France
     which will be by referral from Border Force only to support Ukrainians. The
     primary Visa Application Centre in France will remain in Paris.”
     
     They did not specify where the new centre was.
     
     The government’s website, which provides guidance on how to apply for the
     UK’s Ukraine family visa scheme, currently only mentions the Paris centre.
     
     BBC Home Editor Mark Easton reported from Calais yesterday that a Border
     Force official advised one family to go to the old port building in Calais
     where “the Home Office representation amounted to three men at a table in a
     deserted departure hall with bags of ready salted crisps and chocolate
     bars”.
     
     Read more here
     
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 4.  Posted at 12:1812:18
     
     
     BOY, 11, TRAVELS 1,200KM TO SAFETY ALONE
     
     Slovak Interior MinistryCopyright: Slovak Interior Ministry
     
     A boy has arrived safely in Slovakia after travelling some 1,200km (750
     miles) from eastern Ukraine with no more than two small bags, a passport
     and his relatives' phone number.
     
     Hassan, 11, left his home in Zaporizhzhia because his mother could not
     leave her elderly mother.
     
     She put him on a train, and when he finally got to the border he was helped
     across by customs officers.
     
     Officials said he was a true hero and had won over everyone with his smile.
     
     The boy arrived at the border carrying a plastic bag, a small red backpack
     and his passport. He was taken in by volunteers who gave him food and a
     drink while border officials got in touch with relatives in the Slovak
     capital Bratislava.
     
     His mother, in a video posted by Slovak police, thanked everyone for taking
     care of her son and explained why he had travelled across the country when
     it was in the grip of a Russian invasion.
     
     "Next to my town is a power plant that the Russians are shelling. I
     couldn't leave my mum - she can't move by herself - so I sent my son to
     Slovakia," Julia Pisecka said.
     
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 5.  Posted at 12:0812:08
     
     
     AT LEAST 1,207 CIVILIAN CASUALTIES SO FAR IN UKRAINE - UN
     
     ReutersCopyright: Reuters
     A residential district in Mariupol was devastated last week during Russian
     shellingImage caption: A residential district in Mariupol was devastated
     last week during Russian shelling
     
     According to the latest UN figures, there have been 1,207 civilian
     casualties since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began on 24 February.
     
     That number includes including 406 people killed and 801 injured - but
     figures "are likely to be much higher" says Liz Throssell, spokesperson for
     the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
     
     Most injuries are the result of "airstrikes and explosive weapons", says
     the UN, with "hundreds of residential buildings" destroyed in cities across
     Ukraine.
     
     One journalist is reported to have been killed.
     
     The UN has also expressed concern about the "arbitrary detention" of
     pro-Ukrainian supporters in areas under Russian millitary control - as well
     as violence against those considered to be pro-Russian in Ukrainian
     government-controlled territories.
     
     Latest UN figures suggest some 12,700 people have been arrested in Russia
     for holding peaceful anti-war protests.
     
     The organisation criticised Russia's recently imposed "repressive laws"
     that impose jail sentences of up to 15 years on those charged with
     spreading so-called "false" information about the invasion, or discrediting
     the Russian armed forces.
     
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 6.  Posted at 12:0112:01
     
     
     TEMPERATURES IN UKRAINE SET TO PLUNGE
     
     In recent days Ukraine has seen snowfall across parts of the country, and
     as our chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet tweeted earlier, more
     is falling.
     
     BBC weather presenter Ian Ferguson has provided more details on the cold
     snap, saying it's due to turn even colder from midweek.
     
     Cities like Kharkiv and Kyiv will experience "biting windchill" of -13C to
     -20C at times during the next few days.
     
     He says the "awful" conditions, with temperatures 5C or more below the
     seasonal average, will affect displaced people across Ukraine and those
     without adequate shelter and power.
     
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 7.  Posted at 11:5111:51
     
     
     CHINA'S PRESIDENT CALLS FOR PEACE TALKS
     
     Getty ImagesCopyright: Getty Images
     
     Chinese President Xi Jinping has described the situation in Ukraine as
     worrying and called for "maximum restraint".
     
     He made the comments during a virtual meeting with French President
     Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Chinese state
     broadcaster CCTV reports.
     
     Xi said the priority should be preventing the situation in Ukraine from
     spinning out of control, and said the three countries should jointly
     support peace talks between Russia and Ukraine.
     
     China and Russia currently enjoy a close diplomatic relationship and
     Beijing has neither condemned nor condoned the action against Ukraine.
     However China did abstain from a UN Security Council vote condemning the
     invasion.
     
     Read more analysis on China's stance here.
     
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 8.  Posted at 11:3611:36
     
     
     LIFE IN A SHELTER IN SUMY: 'TRAUMA, SICKNESS, FRIENDSHIP AND LOVE'
     
     Samuel OtunlaCopyright: Samuel Otunla
     Inside the basement where Samuel and fellow students have been
     shelteringImage caption: Inside the basement where Samuel and fellow
     students have been sheltering
     
     Nigerian veterinary student Samuel Otunla has, like hundreds of other
     international students, been stuck in the north-east Ukrainian city of Sumy
     since the outbreak of the conflict.
     
     Civilians have begun to flee Sumy today after Russia agreed to pause its
     bombardment.
     
     Speaking to the BBC on Monday, Otunla said the past 10 days had been
     "nothing short of trauma".
     
     He has been one of 60 international students, alongside Ukrainians and
     hostel staff, who have spent a week "in a dusty basement".
     
     "We’ve been unable to leave. The railway has been closed, the main roads
     are [largely] inaccessible," he said.
     
     "Throughout the past eight days, we’ve experienced trauma, sickness, stress
     and weariness - but, in the midst of all that, we also experienced
     friendship and love."
     
     "We’ve shared meals, medications, blankets and mattresses with one another;
     we’ve played games together, prayed together and laughed together.
     
     "But more than anything, we want to be evacuated together."
     
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 9.  Posted at 11:2811:28
     
     
     WHERE ARE UKRAINIAN REFUGEES GOING?
     
     Getty ImagesCopyright: Getty Images
     
     As we reported earlier on, the United Nations told the BBC that the number
     of refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine is now over two million.
     
     Refugees are crossing to neighbouring countries to the west, such as
     Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Hungary and Moldova.
     
     A significantly smaller number of refugees have gone to Russia and Belarus.
     
     The UN says that so far:
     
      * Poland has welcomed over 1,204,000 refugees
      * Hungary 191,000
      * Slovakia 141,000
      * Moldova 83,000
      * Romania 82,000
      * Russia 99,300
      * Belarus 453
     
     And the UN says more than183,000 people have moved on from these countries
     to others in Europe.
     
     Find out more about the support these countries are providing here.
     
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 10. Posted at 11:1211:12
     
     
     SHELL TO STOP PURCHASES OF RUSSIAN CRUDE OIL
     
     ReutersCopyright: Reuters
     
     Oil giant Shell says it is sorry for buying a shipment of Russian oil last
     week at knock-down prices.
     
     "We are acutely aware that our decision last week to purchase a cargo of
     Russian crude oil to be refined into products like petrol and diesel -
     despite being made with security of supplies at the forefront of our
     thinking - was not the right one and we are sorry," chief executive Ben van
     Beurden says.
     
     The business says it will immediately stop all spot purchases of Russian
     crude oil and will shut its service stations, aviation fuel and lubricants
     operations in Russia.
     
     It says its withdrawal from other associations with Russia will be done "in
     a phased manner, aligned with new government guidance".
     
     Several major international companies have pulled out of Russia following
     its invasion of Ukraine.
     
     Fuel prices have shot up since the attack, with the average price for a
     litre of petrol at UK pumps hitting a record high of £1.56.
     
     You can read more about how reliant the world is on Russian fuels here.
     
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 11. Posted at 11:0611:06
     
     
     BREAKINGMARIUPOL EVACUATION ROUTE UNDER FIRE - REPORTS
     
     We're getting reports that Russian forces are shelling an evacuation route
     out of the besieged city of Mariupol.
     
     Ukrainian foreign ministry spokesperson Oleg Nikolenko said Russian forces
     were attacking the humanitarian corridor between the city and Zaporizhzhia,
     225km (139 miles) to the north-east.
     
     Eight trucks and 30 buses are on their way to deliver humanitarian aid to
     the city and to evacuate civilians to Zaporizhzhia, he said.
     
     Civilians have been living there without running water or power for almost
     a week and food is running out.
     
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 12. Posted at 10:4610:46
     
     
     WE'LL NEED MORE SOLIDARITY ACROSS EUROPE - UN CHIEF
     
     EPACopyright: EPA
     
     Earlier, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said the first
     waves of refugees seen coming out of Ukraine were those with "some
     resources".
     
     "Many come by car, and especially they have connections. They can go where
     they have family, friends, communities," he said.
     
     But he warned that if the war continues, people with few resources and
     connections will be forced to flee.
     
     "That will be a more complex issue for European countries to manage going
     forward and there will need to be even more solidarity by everybody in
     Europe and beyond," he is quoted as saying by the AFP news agency.
     
     He said the Balkan wars in Bosnia and Kosovo saw an exodus of "maybe two to
     three million people, but over a period of eight years".
     
     While other parts of the world have seen similar movements, "in Europe,
     it's the first time since the Second World War".
     
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 13. Posted at 10:2010:20
     
     
     BREAKINGTWO MILLION PEOPLE HAVE NOW LEFT UKRAINE - UN
     
     The number of refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine has passed two million,
     the UN has told the BBC.
     
     Filippo Grandi, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, previously called
     the mass exodus from the country the fastest-growing refugee crisis in
     Europe since World War Two.
     
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 14. Posted at 10:0910:09
     
     
     EU AID FOR UKRAINIAN REFUGEES INSUFFICIENT - POLISH OFFICIAL
     
     Adam Easton
     
     Warsaw Correspondent
     
     The European Union’s offer of 500 million euros (£415m) in aid for
     countries helping Ukrainian refugees is insufficient, a Polish deputy
     foreign minister has said.
     
     “This amount will certainly not be enough, especially as it is to be
     distributed among all countries,” Pawel Jablonski said in an interview with
     Polsat News.
     
     Around 1.2 million people, 90% of them Ukrainian citizens, have fled
     Ukraine to Poland since the war began.
     
     Jablonski said initial calculations estimate that the cost of hosting one
     million refugees will cost Poland up to 10 billion zlotys ($2.2 billion/2
     billion euros) if education, healthcare and social insurance costs are
     taken into account.
     
     “This is an estimate for a million people and we will have many more,” he
     added.
     
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 15. Posted at 9:509:50
     
     
     RUSSIA RAMPING UP NUCLEAR WEAPON ACCUSATIONS AGAINST UKRAINE - UK
     
     There has been an intensification of Russian accusations that Ukraine is
     developing nuclear or biological weapons since February, the UK's Ministry
     of Defence says.
     
     The MoD says that while these are "long-standing narratives", they are
     likely being amplified "as part of a retrospective justification for
     Russia's invasion of Ukraine".
     
     As we reported in an earlier post, Ukraine's military has accused Russia of
     resorting to psychological warfare, saying that groups of Russian forces
     have been conducting propaganda work in occupied territories to influence
     local residents.
     
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 16. Posted at 9:319:31
     
     
     IRPIN EVACUATION UNDER WAY
     
     EPACopyright: EPA
     People have been desperately trying to flee Irpin in recent days, such as
     in this photo from MondayImage caption: People have been desperately trying
     to flee Irpin in recent days, such as in this photo from Monday
     
     People are also evacuating Irpin, a town to the west of Kyiv, which has
     seen heavy fighting in recent days.
     
     The evacuation of the town's population through the village of Romanivka to
     the city of Kyiv continues, said the head of the region, Oleksiy Kuleba.
     
     As of 9:30 (07:30 GMT) more than 150 people had been evacuated, he added.
     
     "The aggressor is preventing the evacuation of the population. Within a
     day, those who were able to get to the gathering place were taken out of
     Irpin on their own. Now the district is preparing for a large-scale
     evacuation and delivery of humanitarian aid."
     
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 17. Posted at 9:149:14
     
     
     RUSSIA MAY HAVE BROKEN LAWS OF WAR IN IRPIN - HRW
     
     An analysis by Human Rights Watch (HRW) of Sunday's Irpin attack suggests
     the laws of war were violated by Russia during the shelling of the town,
     west of Kyiv.
     
     For several hours on 6 March 2022, Russian forces bombarded an intersection
     on a road that hundreds of civilians were using to flee the Russian army’s
     advance in northern Ukraine to Kyiv, Human Rights Watch said.
     
     "The repeated nature of the attacks, which according to the government
     killed at least eight civilians, suggests that Russian forces violated
     their obligations under international humanitarian law not to conduct
     indiscriminate or disproportionate attacks that harm civilians, and failed
     to take all feasible measures to avoid civilian casualties."
     
     Read more of HRW's analysis here.
     
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 18. Posted at 9:019:01
     
     
     1.2 MILLION PEOPLE HAVE FLED TO POLAND
     
     Adam Easton
     
     Warsaw Correspondent
     
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     Refugees arriving in Dorohusk on the Polish-Ukrainian borderImage caption:
     Refugees arriving in Dorohusk on the Polish-Ukrainian border
     
     According to the Polish Border Guard agency, 1.2 million people have fled
     from Ukraine to Poland since the war began.
     
     On Monday alone, 141,500 people crossed the frontier, the agency wrote on
     Twitter - just under Sunday’s daily record of 142,300.
     
     About 90% of the people fleeing are Ukrainian citizens, mostly women and
     children. One academic estimates about 40% of refugees have already left
     Poland for other countries.
     
     Poland was already home to many Ukrainians - estimates range between one
     and two million people - and a lot have come to stay with family or friends
     here.
     
     Thousands of Poles are hosting refugees in their own homes too, and today
     Poland's parliament will debate emergency legislation to compensate those
     who do for their additional costs.
     
     The legislation would also allow Ukrainians to live and work in Poland for
     18 months and receive free healthcare and schooling.
     
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     ZELENSKY: I'M NOT HIDING. I'M NOT AFRAID
     
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     Video caption: War in Ukraine: President Zelensky posts video from office
     in KyivWar in Ukraine: President Zelensky posts video from office in Kyiv
     
     Last night, the Ukrainian president posted another one of his daily videos.
     But this time it came from his presidential office in Kyiv.
     
     He wasn't hiding. And he wasn't afraid, he said.
     
     Zelensky disclosing his exact location so publicly was viewed as a dig at
     Vladimir Putin - Kyiv remains strongly defended by Ukraine forces in the
     face of Russia's main military assault.
     
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     WE NEED TO DO MORE FOR REFUGEES - WALLACE
     
     More now from Ben Wallace.
     
     On the subject of refugees, the UK defence secretary acknowledged the UK
     needed to do more to address the situation of Ukrainians arriving in
     Calais, some of whom have been told they need to travel back to Paris or
     Brussels to apply for a visa.
     
     "We need to do more," he said. "We need to upscale it. I know that the home
     secretary has already doubled, or trebled in some cases, more people in
     different processing centres."
     
     He said the government's compassion was "huge" and would result in hundreds
     of thousands of Ukrainians coming to the UK.
     
     "It's not the case that we are only allowing 300 people in, it is the case
     that the system has not been quick enough, which is what we're going to
     address."
     
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