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The Red Cross said it hoped to lead an evacuation of thousands of civilians from Mariupol on Friday but needed concrete agreements on where fleeing residents would be escorted to. The ICRC said its vehicles would lead the convoy out of the city, which has been under intense Russian bombardment, but said it was not yet certain that the operation could go ahead.
Smoke rises north of Bakhmut close to Soledar, eastern Ukraine, where heavy fighting is taking place as Russian forces try to capture the town. The defence of the village of Paraskoviivka, located north of Bakhmut, is "very strong", according to a senior sergeant who warns that "there can be an operational encirclement of Bakhmut" if the Russian forces take the village and block the road to the town.
These are the latest developments in the Ukraine war you need to know today.
The city of Mariupol is learning to live at Russian time. The objective of the separatists who hold the city now is to Russify the population -- and this starts at schools -- as the city continues to discover the extent of the massacre after 3 months of siege.
A convoy of buses left Mariupol on Wednesday in a new attempt by Ukraine, the UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross to evacuate civilians from the southern Ukrainian city, the regional governor said. FRANCE 24's Nadia Massih reports from Kyiv.
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