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Added on the 22/04/2021 21:36:33 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
The first passenger train arrives in Kherson since Russian forces withdrew from the city on November 11. Arriving with a one hour delay, the train from Kyiv pulled in at ten o’clock as people waved flags from a bridge and relatives waited with flowers on the platform. IMAGES
Police gather in Moscow as a rally to protest against Russian military action in Ukraine is expected to start. They patrol and can be seen arresting two people, carrying them away towards parked police vans. IMAGES
Ukraine's borders remain "unchangeable" regardless of Russia's recent actions, Kyiv's ambassador to the United Nations told the Security Council. SOUNDBITE
"We also regret the order to deploy Russian troops into eastern Ukraine, reportedly on a peacekeeping mission," says United Nations Under-Secretary-General Under-Secretary-General for peacebuilding Rosemary DiCarlo. "These developments follow the decision to order a mass evacuation of civilian residents of Donetsk and Lugansk into the Russian Federation. We are concerned by the escalating shelling across the contact line." SOUNDBITE
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky urges allies to deliver "more weapons to drive Russian forces off our land", in a meeting of Kyiv's backers at the US Ramstein air base in Germany. SOUNDBITE