Efforts are ongoing to coordinate safe routes of escape for Ukrainian civilians out of besieged cities as the Russian invasion rounds out its second week.
, nearly half of them children. Russian troops have captured swaths of territory in the south, but have faced fierce Ukrainian resistance in other regions.
Life has become increasingly desperate in cities cut from electricity and facing food and medicine shortages. The port city of Mariupol is particularly devastated, lacking running water, heat, sanitary systems and phone service. Other routes out of Mariupol, Enerhodar in the south, Volnovakha in the southeast, Izyum in the east, and several towns in the Kyiv region could too see evacuations during a 12-hour-long ceasefire. Civilians would be led to places in Ukraine held by the government.
, women and children gathered in a basement shelter as outgoing artillery fire blazed in the distance. In the capital, Kyiv, air raid sirens were heard Wednesday morning before an all-clear was given. Families with small children continue to seek refuge inside a subway station to escape the sounds of war above. One university student told the AP that people go home from time to time to shower and get food only.What are Ukrainian officials saying?
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