Russia-Ukraine live news: UN seeking ‘humanitarian ceasefire’ | Russia-Ukraine war News
- The Red Cross has said it will again attempt to evacuate Ukrainian civilians from the besieged city of Mariupol, after a convoy had to turn back on Friday.
- More than 6,200 people were evacuated from Ukrainian cities on Friday, a senior official says.
- The UN’s humanitarian chief will travel to Moscow on Sunday and then to Kyiv to discuss ceasefire efforts, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said.
- The US says it is providing Ukraine with supplies to respond to a potential Russian chemical attack.
- Dozens of Ukrainian cultural sites have been damaged in the war, UNESCO says.
Here are all the latest updates:
Ukraine says it carried out prisoner exchange with Russia
Ukraine and Russia have carried out a prisoner exchange, leading to the release of 86 Ukrainian servicemembers, the deputy head of Ukraine’s presidential administration Kyrylo Tymoshenko has said.
In an online post, Tymoshenko did not reveal how many Russian soldiers were swapped, but he said the deal was a result of ongoing peace negotiations.
UN sending top official to Moscow to seek ‘humanitarian ceasefire’
A top United Nations official will visit Moscow this weekend to try to secure a “humanitarian ceasefire” in Ukraine, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said.
Martin Griffiths, the UN’s under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, will fly to Moscow on Sunday then on to Kyiv.
Guterres said that the visit shows “that we don’t give up on the perspective of stopping the fighting, in Yemen, in Ukraine, everywhere in the world”.
White House declines to say whether US would back Ukrainian attacks on Russia
The White House has declined to say whether the US would back Ukrainian attacks on Russian soil after Moscow accused Kyiv of being behind an air raid on a fuel depot in the Russian city of Belgorod. Ukraine has denied responsibility for the attack.
Asked by reporters whether the US would support such attacks in the future, the White House’s Psaki said: “I’m not going to get into a future hypothetical. What I would just reiterate again is that this is a war of aggression by the Russian leadership, by President Putin.”
US providing Ukraine with supplies to respond to possible chemical attack
The United States is providing Ukraine with a “range of materials and equipment” to respond to a possible Russian chemical weapons attack, the White House has said.
“In an effort to assist our Ukrainian partners, the US government is providing the government of Ukraine life-saving equipment and supplies that could be deployed in the event of Russian use of a chemical and biological weapon,” Press Secretary Jen Psaki told reporters.
US officials have previously warned Russia against using chemical weapons in Ukraine, dismissing Moscow’s allegations that Kyiv was developing a biological weapons programme with US assistance.
Situation in besieged city of Mariupol ‘dire’: AJE correspondent
Tens of thousands of Ukrainian civilians trapped in the besieged port city of Mariupol are facing a “dire” situation as fighting rages, Al Jazeera’s Imran Khan has said, with many living underground to escape the shelling.
A Red Cross convoy travelling to Mariupol turned around because it had become impossible to proceed with its mission to begin evacuating civilians on Friday, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said. The convoy will try again on Saturday, it said.
The port city has been under bombardment by Russian forces for weeks, and the mayor says up to 170,000 people are trapped without power and with limited access to food and other supplies.
“The situation is absolutely dire,” said Khan.
Efforts afoot to evade sanctions on Russian assets, US official says
The head of a US task force working to enforce sanctions against wealthy Russians and other targets has said he has seen evidence of efforts to evade those curbs.
Andrew Adams, who heads the US Justice Department’s so-called “KleptoCapture” team, told the Reuters news agency that international cooperation on investigations into Russian assets had reached an “all-time high” amid the war in Ukraine.
However, he said “there are efforts afoot – some of them publicly reported – to move, for example, moveable property in the forms of yachts, airplanes … into jurisdictions where, I think, people have the perception that it would be more difficult to investigate and more difficult to freeze”.
More than 6,200 people evacuated from Ukrainian cities on Friday: Official
A senior Ukrainian official has said 6,266 people were evacuated from cities through humanitarian corridors on Friday.
Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy head of the president’s office, said in an online post that 3,071 of those evacuees had left the besieged city of Mariupol, which has been under Russian bombardment for weeks.
Russia recruiting Syrians to fight in Ukraine: Analysts
Analysts say Moscow has been recruiting Syrian fighters to join its offensive in Ukraine, using its mercenary network and local groups.
Thousands across the war-torn country have reportedly expressed an interest in signing up.
Read more here about Russia’s effort.
Welcome to Al Jazeera’s continuing coverage of the war in Ukraine.
Read all the updates from Friday, April 1 here.
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