Reportedly, fleeing citizens of Mariupol described relentless bombardments and corpses in the street. According to reports, weeks of shelling has cut off water, power and food supplies. Reportedly, the city council said that more than 1,100 people were on their way in a convoy of buses to another city to Mariupol’s north west. According to the report, an estimated 5,000 citizens have taken refuge in a camp set up by russian seperatists in Donetsk. Reportedly, according to the deputy prime minister more than 8,000 ukrainians escaped to safer places on Monday, 3,000 from Mariupol.
According to the report, ground offensives in other parts of the country advanced slowly or not at all, knocked back by lethal hit and run attacks by ukrainians. Reportedly, early Tuesday following a fierce battle, Ukraine forces forced russian troops out of the Kyiv suburb of Makariv. According to the report, the regained territory enabled forces to take control on a key highway and block russian troops from surrounding Kyiv from the north west.
Reportedly, the ukrainian president who said 117 children have died in the war, suggested Kyiv would be open to future discussions on the status of areas in the Donbas region, but said that was a topic for another time.