The fast-moving developments on the diplomatic front and on the ground came as Russia's invasion neared the three-week mark and the number of Ukrainians who have left the country amid Europe's heaviest fighting since World War II eclipsed 3 million.
Relatives and friends attend the funeral of Ukrainian Colonel Oleg Yaschyshyn in Lviv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 15, 2022. Yaschyshyn was killed during Sunday's Russian missile strike on a military training base near Ukraine's western border with NATO member Poland.
He appealed for more weapons and more sanctions to punish Russia, and repeated his call to “close the skies over Ukraine to Russian missiles and planes.” A senior U.S. defense official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss the Pentagon's assessment, said that the Russians were using long-range fire to hit civilian targets inside Kyiv with increasing frequency but that their ground forces were making little to no progress around the country. The official said Russian troops were still about 15 kilometers from the center of the capital.
“We have heard for many years about the open doors, but we also heard that we can’t enter those doors,” he said. “This is the truth, and we have simply to accept it as it is.” The exodus from Mariupol marked the biggest evacuation yet from the southern city of 430,000, where officials say a weekslong siege has killed more than 2,300 people and left residents struggling for food, water, heat and medicine. Bodies have been buried in mass graves.
Doctors from other Mariupol hospitals made a video to tell the world about the horrors they've been seeing. “We don’t want to be heroes and martyrs posthumously,” one woman said. She also said it's insufficient to simply refer to people as the wounded: "it’s torn off arms and legs, gouged out eyes, bodies torn into fragments, insides falling out.”
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