Ukraine and Russia: What you need to know right now

(Reuters) – The town council of Ukraine’s Mariupol mentioned Russian forces forcefully deported a number of thousand folks from the besieged metropolis final week, after Russia had spoken of “refugees” arriving from the strategic port.

FIGHTING, DIPLOMACY

* Ukrainian President Zelenskiy urged Switzerland to crack down on Russian oligarchs who he mentioned have been serving to to wage conflict on his nation from the protection of “stunning Swiss cities”.

* Russia mentioned it had used hypersonic Kinzhal (Dagger) missiles to destroy a big weapons depot in Ukraine’s western Ivano-Frankivsk area. 9:30p

* Russian President Putin is wholesome, sane and “in higher form than ever”, shut ally Belarus President Lukashenko informed Japanese TV.

* A Russian mortar assault on Ukrainian city of Makariv within the Kyiv area killed seven folks and hospitalised 5 on Friday, native police mentioned in a press release. Russia denies focusing on civilians.

* A senior Chinese language authorities official mentioned that sanctions imposed by Western nations on Russia are more and more “outrageous”.

CIVILIANS

* Pope Francis made a shock go to to younger refugees being handled in a paediatric hospital in Rome.

* The U.N. human rights workplace mentioned not less than 847 civilians had been killed and 1,399 wounded in Ukraine as of Friday. The Ukrainian prosecutor basic’s workplace mentioned that 112 kids have been killed.

ECONOMY AND MARKETS

* Ukraine might not produce sufficient crops to export if this yr’s sowing campaigns are disrupted by the invasion, presidential adviser Oleh Ustenko mentioned.

SPACE SUITS

* Russia’s house company dismissed Western media stories suggesting Russian cosmonauts becoming a member of the Worldwide House Station had chosen to put on yellow fits with a blue trim in assist of Ukraine. “Generally yellow is simply yellow,” Roscosmos’s press service mentioned on its Telegram channel.

QUOTES

* “The occupiers illegally took folks from the Livoberezhniy district and from the shelter within the sports activities membership constructing, the place greater than a thousand folks (largely girls and kids) have been hiding from the fixed bombing,” the Mariupol metropolis council mentioned.

* “When the alarm sounded, I coated the home windows with blankets so one could not hear it. My small ones made up a monster, the siren monster,” mentioned Tanya, a refugee within the Polish border city of Przemysl.

(Compiled by Frances Kerry and William Mallard)