Russian Assault Shows No Letup as War Enters a Second Week
- Lavrov says any cease-fire deal must ‘demilitarize’ Ukraine
- Baltic leaders seek UN safe corridor so Ukrainians can flee
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Russian forces fired missiles at Kyiv and bombarded cities across Ukraine, as President Vladimir Putin pushed ahead with his invasion in disregard of a United Nations vote to immediately halt the fighting.
As the war entered a second week, it became ever clearer that a humanitarian tragedy is unfolding in Europe. Refugees continued to spill over the borders, with more than a million people leaving Ukraine for neighboring countries. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy accused Russia of a deliberate strategy “to ruin our cities, to kill our people, to take from us everything that we hold dear.”