- The European Union unveils proposals for a sixth round of sanctions on Russia, including a ban on Russian oil imports by the end of 2022.
- Russian attacks have killed 21 civilians and wounded 27 others in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, its governor says.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says 156 civilian evacuees from Mariupol have reached the Ukrainian-held city of Zaporizhzhia.
- Another convoy of buses leaves Mariupol on Wednesday morning as evacuation efforts resume.
- Russia says its forces struck several Ukrainian railway stations used to transport Western-made weapons.
Here are all the latest updates:
Exhausted Azovstal evacuees recount trauma of Mariupol siege
Pale and exhausted, Ukrainian civilians rescued from Mariupol stumbled out of buses in the city of Zaporizhzhia on Tuesday after a gruelling three-day journey.
The northwesterly trip of 230km (140 miles), which would have taken just three hours before the war, was part of an evacuation plan coordinated by the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
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Russia sanctions Japanese PM Kishida, other officials
Russia’s foreign ministry has announced sanctions against 63 Japanese officials, journalists and professors for engaging in what it called “unacceptable rhetoric” against Moscow.
Prime Minister Fumio…
