It’s 11 p.m. in Kyiv. Catch up on the latest developments in the Russia-Ukraine war

News Desk April 9, 2022 in EUROPE, UKRAINE WAR, WORLD Tagged Russia, Russia-Ukraine conflict, Ukraine, War - 2 Minutes

If you’re just joining us, here’s what you need to know about where things stand with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Foreign leaders travel to Kyiv to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Putin:

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson made a visit to the capital on Saturday as a show of “solidarity with the Ukrainian people,” according to Downing Street.
Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer also met with Zelensky on Saturday.

Some diplomatic operations begin resuming in Kyiv:

The European Union announced Saturday that it would resume diplomacy out of the capital. Italy also announced it would move back its embassy to Kyiv from Lviv, where it had relocated as Russian aggression escalated in the country. Slovenia reopened its embassy in Kyiv on March 28, according to Slovenia’s Foreign Ministry.

Radiation levels in Chernobyl:

Petro Kotin, the head of Ukraine’s state nuclear power operator Energoatom, visited one of the sections of the so-called Red Forest in Chernobyl’s exclusion zone along with specialists and observed “abnormally high” radiation in areas where the Russian troops dug trenches and tried to build fortifications.

Based on data, a statement said, “all the occupiers who were based in and entrenched in the Red Forest, in almost 30 days, should expect radiation sickness of varying degrees of severity.”

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An update on casualties:

All the people injured in the railway station strike on Friday have been evacuated from the city, with most moved to the regional center of Dnipro, and some to Kyiv, a local hospital official in Kramatorsk told CNN. A total of 80 adults and 19 children were injured, with 20 of the injured in serious condition. Ukrainian officials have said 52 people were killed in the strike.

Ukrainian servicemen stand next to a fragment of a Tochka-U missile with a writing in Russian “For children” , on a grass after Russian shelling at the railway station in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, Friday, April 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Andriy Andriyenko)

At least 176 children have died and more than 324 have been injured as a result of Russian aggression, the Ukrainian Parliament, Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, said in a tweet on Saturday. The figures are not final as destruction in hard-hit areas continues to be assessed, it added.

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