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Nearly three weeks into their invasion, Russian forces are intensifying attacks on civilian targets across a number of Ukrainian cities. A suspected Russian missile attack hit an apartment building in the Sviatoshynskyi district of the capital, Kyiv, on Tuesday, killing at least two people, while in the besieged port city of Mariupol, hundreds of people, including doctors and medical personnel, are being held inside a regional hospital, according to Ukrainian officials. As many as 3 million people have fled the war-torn country since the invasion began â half of them children.
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Blinken says heâs confident Ukraine will outlast Putinâs regime
Return to menuSecretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday that he believed Ukraine would be able to survive the Russian invasion and outlast Russian President Vladimir Putinâs regime.
When asked on CNNâs âSituation Roomâ if the West would regret not doing more to stop the Kremlinâs attacks on Ukraine, Blinken said it was hard to project into the future. But âthereâs going to be a Ukraine, an independent Ukraine, a lot longer than there is going to be a Vladimir Putin,â he said. âOne way or the other Ukraine will be there, and at some point, Putin wonât.â
âThe real question is how much death and destruction is wrought by Russiaâs aggression in the meantime. And thatâs what weâre working as hard as we can to limit,â Blinken added.
Blinkenâs remarks came as European leaders made highly visible gestures of support for Ukraine. On Tuesday, top officials from the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovenia â all NATO members â traveled to war-torn Kyiv to meet with President Volodymyr Zelensky. On the same day, at least four people were killed in the capital after Russian missile attacks, Kyivâs mayor said.
Hereâs the status of Ukrainian cities under Russian attack
Return to menuNearly three weeks into their invasion of Ukraine, Russian forces are fighting to press forward in a number of cities across the country. Here are updates on some Ukrainian cities:
Boston doctors wanted to help Ukrainians. They made YouTube tutorials on how to control bleeding wounds.
Return to menuAs heavy metal music plays in the background, a doctor grabs a piece of cloth and places it atop an open wound on a medical dummy. Pressing on the cloth with both hands, he applies pressure. Later, he secures a tourniquet to the dummyâs leg.
The video is less than 40 seconds long â but its creators say it could help save lives in Ukraine.
âThe data we know from the battlefield is that a significant amount of deaths are preventable with taking these steps,â Eric Goralnick, an emergency medicine physician at Brigham and Womenâs Hospital in Boston, told The Washington Post.
Goralnick is the doctor shown acting out the tutorial in the short video, which provides a list of actionable steps written in Ukrainian. Another video, about 4½ minutes long, features a more detailed step-by-step narrated in Ukrainian by Nelya Melnitchouk, a Ukrainian-born oncology surgeon at Brigham and Womenâs Hospital.
55 Ukrainian kids become refugees every minute
Return to menuPRZEMYSL, Poland â The wave of refugees flooding through Europe is striking not just for its historic scale and speed but also because half of the 3 million people who have fled the war in Ukraine are children.
That means one child has become a refugee nearly every second since the start of the war, said James Elder, a spokesperson for UNICEF.
Many have had to say goodbye to their fathers before undertaking difficult and disorienting journeys with mothers and siblings, sometimes waiting more than a dozen hours in the cold before being allowed to cross into safer countries. Parents have agonized over how to explain what was happening. Some kids heard they were going on vacation. Others were told directly: Our homes are not safe, and Dad must stay behind to defend our country.
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