- The World Health Organization said attacks on Ukrainian hospitals, ambulances and other healthcare facilities had increased “rapidly” in recent days and vital medical supplies were running low. The UN agency said it was working to urgently get medical supplies to Ukraine. Among the supplies running low are oxygen, insulin, PPE, surgical supplies and blood products.
- The European Commission has prepared a new sanctions package against Russia and Belarus that will hit additional Russian oligarchs and politicians as well as three Belarusian banks, Reuters reports. Sources told the news agency that the sanctions, to be discussed by EU ambassadors today at a meeting at 2pm GMT, would ban three Belarusian banks from the Swift banking system and add more Russian oligarchs and politicians to the EU blacklist.
- Ukraine’s ministry of foreign affairs has reported that 12,000 Russian personnel have been killed in its latest assessment of their losses to date. They said so far Russian forces had also lost 48 aircraft, 80 helicopters, 303 tanks, 1,036 armed vehicles, 120 artillery pieces and 27 anti-aircraft warfare systems.
- The UN high commissioner for refugees, Filippo Grandi, says the number of people who have left Ukraine since Russia’s invasion today reached 2 million.
- A Ukrainian deputy prime minister has warned that although the first stage of Sumy’s evacuation has begun, Russia is “preparing to disrupt” them. Irina Vereshchuk said: “The Russian side is preparing to disrupt the work of humanitarian corridors and manipulate the route to force people to go the other way.” She later announced that a second humanitarian corridor had been launched between Mariupol and Zaporizhia.
- The evacuation of civilians from Irpin, near Kyiv, is under way, reports Reuters, citing a Ukrainian official.
- The Ukrainian government announced that the first stage of evacuation from Sumy had begun. Footage from the humanitarian corridor in Sumy showed people being transported by bus.
- Russia has reportedly opened humanitarian corridors from Kyiv, Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv and Mariupol so that civilians can be evacuated. The Russian defence ministry made the announcement today, Reuters reports, citing the Interfax news agency. The defence ministry also reportedly said Russian forces in Ukraine had introduced a “silent regime” from 0700 GMT.
- Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, will address UK MPs on Tuesday via video link and is expected to plead for more arms and a no-fly zone over Ukraine to be enforced by Nato.
the guardian