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Close The Sky: Ukrainian Refugees Plead for West to Take Tougher Action on Russia
Russia Continues to Bomb City Despite Ceasefire - Leaving Thousands Trapped
The deputy mayor of Mariupol, a port city in the south of Ukraine, has said Russians have not kept to an agreed ceasefire designed to allow citizens to flee the bombarded settlement
The Sun 5 MAR 2022
Ukrainians fleeing into central Europe pleaded for Western nations to take tougher steps against Russia on Saturday following Moscow's invasion that has created more than 1 million refugees.
At the Medyka crossing, Poland's busiest, along its roughly 500-kilometre (310-mile) border with Ukraine, refugees called for a no-fly zone over Ukraine – something NATO powers have so far ruled out on the grounds it would risk escalating the conflict beyond Ukraine.
"We really want that NATO closes the sky on Ukraine," said Anastasia Lukashenko, 18, who fled from Vinnytsia Oblast. "Russia kill our children, our parents," she added.
Another refugee, Julia Moncham, said she was sceptical of the invasion's reported death toll. "I don't believe that ... so small, so little ... I think that people more die," she said, holding back tears.
Poland, whose Ukrainian community of around 1 million is the region's largest, has accepted nearly 800,000 Ukrainian refugees since the start of the Russian invasion on Feb. 24, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Paweł Szefernaker told reporters. More than 106,000 arrived from Ukraine in the last 24 hours, the highest figure since the war erupted.
Russia said its forces had stopped firing near two Ukrainian cities on Saturday to allow safe passage to civilians fleeing the fighting, but was continuing its broad offensive in Ukraine, where the capital Kyiv came under renewed assault.
Incredible video shows moment Russian helicopter is blown out of sky by Ukrainian troops as war rages
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