乌克兰利沃夫——俄罗斯军队加强了对城市的炮击乌克兰一名乌克兰官员说，这颠覆了疏散被围困平民的努力。随着乌克兰领导人敦促他的人民在街头战斗，俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京转移了入侵的责任，称“只有基辅停止敌对行动”，俄罗斯的攻击才能停止
总统顾问Oleksiy Arestovich说，基辅郊区、北部的Chernihiv、南部的Mykolaiv和该国第二大城市哈尔科夫周日晚间面临着加剧的炮击。据当地官员称，重炮袭击了哈尔科夫的居民区，炮击损坏了一座电视塔。
周一，战争进入第12天，英国国防部在谈到俄罗斯的战术时表示，“这很可能代表着打击乌克兰士气的努力”。战斗导致150万人逃离该国，联合国难民署负责人称之为“自二战以来欧洲增长最快的难民危机”
最近的袭击打破了更多人可以逃离乌克兰战火的希望，俄罗斯迅速占领该国的计划因激烈的抵抗而受阻。俄罗斯在乌克兰南部和沿海地区取得了重大进展，但它的许多努力都陷入了停滞，包括在基辅以北几天几乎一动不动的庞大军事车队。
在南部港口城市马里乌波尔，食品、水、药品和几乎所有其他物资都极度短缺，俄罗斯和乌克兰军队已经同意停火11个小时，以便疏散平民和伤员。但乌克兰官员表示，俄罗斯的袭击很快关闭了人道主义走廊。
内务部顾问安东·格拉先科在一份电报中说:“不可能有‘绿色走廊’，因为只有俄罗斯人有病的大脑才能决定何时向谁开枪。”。
俄罗斯和乌克兰领导人计划于周一举行第三轮会谈。
乌克兰总统弗拉基米尔·泽伦斯基(Volodymyr Zelenskyy)号召他的人民继续反抗，特别是那些被俄罗斯人占领的城市。
“你应该上街!你应该战斗!”他周六在乌克兰电视台说。“有必要走出去，把这种邪恶从我们的城市、从我们的土地上赶走。”
泽伦斯基还要求美国和北约国家向乌克兰派遣更多战机。但是这个想法因为如何向乌克兰飞行员提供飞机的问题而变得复杂。
他后来敦促西方加强对俄罗斯的制裁，称“侵略者的厚颜无耻是一个明确的信号”，即现有的制裁是不够的。
一名美国高级国防官员周日说，美国评估显示，部署在乌克兰周围的俄罗斯军队中，约有95%现在都在乌克兰境内。这名官员说，俄罗斯军队继续推进，试图孤立基辅、哈尔科夫和切尔尼戈夫，但是遭到乌克兰的强烈抵抗。
这位不愿透露姓名讨论军事评估的官员说，基辅外的车队继续受阻。
正如他经常做的那样，普京将战争归咎于乌克兰，周日告诉土耳其总统雷杰普·塔伊普·埃尔多安，基辅需要停止一切敌对行动，满足“俄罗斯众所周知的要求”。
普京发动入侵时对基辅提出了一系列错误的指控，包括由新纳粹分子领导，意图通过发展核武器来削弱俄罗斯。
俄罗斯国防部周日宣布，其部队打算用所谓的精确武器打击乌克兰的军事工业综合体。外交部发言人伊戈尔·科纳申科夫(Igor Konashenkov)在国家通讯社塔斯社(Tass)发表的一份声明中称，乌克兰人员被迫修复受损的军事设备，以便这些设备能够重新投入使用。
泽伦斯基批评西方领导人没有对俄罗斯的最新威胁做出回应。
“我甚至没有听到任何一个世界领导人对此做出反应，”泽伦斯基周日晚上说。
俄罗斯国防部还声称，乌克兰军队正在策划炸毁哈尔科夫的一个实验核反应堆，并将其归咎于俄罗斯的导弹袭击，但没有提供证据。
普京和法国总统埃马纽埃尔·马克龙周日讨论了乌克兰的核形势。乌克兰的四个发电厂有15个核反应堆，1986年切尔诺贝利核灾难就发生在这里。
根据一名法国官员的说法，这些人原则上同意由俄罗斯、乌克兰和联合国原子能机构(U.N. ' s atomic watchdog)参与的“对话”,这名官员按照总统的惯例要求匿名。他说，未来几天将组织有关这一问题的潜在会谈。
普京还将上周Zaporizhzhia核电站的火灾归咎于“乌克兰激进分子组织的挑衅”，乌克兰官员称火灾是由俄罗斯袭击者造成的。
国际领导人以及教皇弗朗西斯呼吁普京进行谈判。
教皇表示，他已经派遣两名红衣主教前往乌克兰，试图结束这场冲突，这是一个极不寻常的举动。
“在乌克兰，血流成河，泪流满面，”教皇在他传统的周日祝福中说道。
死亡人数仍不清楚。联合国表示，已经确认只有数百名平民死亡，但也警告说，这个数字是一个巨大的低估。
据市长Oleksander Markyshin称，在基辅西北郊区的Irpin镇，约有八名平民被俄罗斯炮击身亡。死者包括一个家庭。
视频画面显示，一枚炮弹落在一条城市街道上，距离逃离战斗的人们使用的一座桥不远。可以看到一群战士试图帮助这家人。
少数在人道主义走廊关闭前成功逃离马里乌波尔的居民表示，这座拥有43万人口的城市已经被摧毁。
“我们看到了一切:房子在燃烧，所有的人都坐在地下室里，”庞雅文·扎迈说，他逃到了乌克兰东部由亲俄分裂分子控制的一个自称的共和国。“没有通讯，没有水，没有气，没有光，没有水。什么都没有。”
英国军方官员将俄罗斯的策略与莫斯科在车臣和叙利亚使用的策略进行了比较，在那里，被包围的城市被空袭和炮火摧毁。
泽伦斯基重申了外国保护者在乌克兰上空实施禁飞区的请求，北约迄今为止一直排除这一请求，因为担心这样的行动会导致更大范围的战争。
泽伦斯基周日在一次视频讲话中说:“这个世界强大到足以关闭我们的天空。”。
乌克兰军队在很大程度上落后于俄罗斯，但其专业和志愿部队顽强地进行了反击。在基辅，志愿者周六排队加入军队。
西方广泛支持乌克兰，提供援助和武器运输，并对俄罗斯实施大规模制裁。但没有北约部队被派往乌克兰。
乌克兰正计划建立一支由来自几十个国家的志愿战士组成的国际军团。根据乌克兰外交部长Dmytro Kuleba的说法，超过20，000人自愿参加，尽管不清楚乌克兰有多少人。
“今天，全世界都站在乌克兰一边，不仅在口头上，而且在行动上，”他周日晚上在乌克兰电视台表示。
俄罗斯在乌克兰南部取得重大进展，试图封锁通往亚速海的通道。占领马里乌波尔可以让莫斯科建立一条通往克里米亚的陆上走廊，俄罗斯在2014年从乌克兰吞并了克里米亚，此举被大多数其他国家视为非法。
自入侵开始以来，俄罗斯变得越来越孤立，随着制裁对其经济的影响越来越大，俄罗斯对外部信息来源关闭了大门。卢布大幅贬值，数十家跨国公司终止或大幅缩减了在该国的业务。
周日，美国运通宣布将暂停在俄罗斯以及俄罗斯盟友白俄罗斯的业务。此外，四大会计师事务所中的两家，毕马威和普华永道周日表示，他们将结束与俄罗斯成员事务所的关系。
抖音周日宣布，俄罗斯用户将无法发布新视频或观看从世界其他地方分享的视频。该公司指责莫斯科新的“假新闻”法，该法除其他外，将战斗描述为入侵是非法的。网飞也切断了对俄服务，但没有提供细节。
脸书和推特在俄罗斯已经被屏蔽，一些主要国际媒体的网站也被屏蔽。抖音是中国科技公司字节跳动的一部分。
美国众议院议长南希·佩洛西表示，国会正在探索如何进一步将俄罗斯从全球经济中孤立出来，包括禁止其石油和能源产品进口到美国。佩洛西星期天说，正在考虑的这项立法还将废除与俄罗斯和白俄罗斯的正常贸易关系，并开始拒绝俄罗斯加入世界贸易组织的进程。
Ukraine says Russia steps up shelling of residential areas
LVIV, Ukraine -- Russian forces intensified shelling of cities inUkraine's center, north and south, a Ukrainian official said, upending attempts to evacuate besieged civilians. With the Ukrainian leader urging his people to fight in the streets, Russian President Vladimir Putin shifted blame for the invasion, saying Moscow's attacks could be halted “only if Kyiv ceases hostilities.”
The outskirts of Kyiv, Chernihiv in the north, Mykolaiv in the south, and Kharkiv, the country’s second-largest city, faced stepped-up shelling late Sunday, presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovich said. Heavy artillery hit residential areas in Kharkiv and shelling damaged a television tower, according to local officials.
“This is likely to represent an effort to break Ukrainian morale,” the U.K. Ministry of Defense said of Russian tactics as the war entered its 12th day Monday. Fighting has caused 1.5 million people to flee the country, which the head of the U.N. refugee agency called “the fastest-growing refugee crisis in Europe since World War II.”
The most recent attacks dashed hopes that more people could escape the fighting in Ukraine, where Russia's plan to quickly overrun the country has been stymied by fierce resistance. Russia has made significant advances in southern Ukraine and along the coast, but many of its efforts have become stalled, including an immense military convoy that has been almost motionless for days north of Kyiv.
Food, water, medicine and almost all other supplies were in desperately short supply in the southern port city of Mariupol, where Russian and Ukrainian forces had agreed to an 11-hour cease-fire that would allow civilians and the wounded to be evacuated. But Russian attacks quickly closed the humanitarian corridor, Ukrainian officials said.
“There can be no ‘green corridors’ because only the sick brain of the Russians decides when to start shooting and at whom,“ Interior Ministry adviser Anton Gerashchenko said on Telegram.
A third round of talks between Russian and Ukrainian leaders is planned for Monday.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy rallied his people to remain defiant, especially those in cities occupied by Russians.
“You should take to the streets! You should fight!” he said Saturday on Ukrainian television. “It is necessary to go out and drive this evil out of our cities, from our land.”
Zelenskyy also asked the United States and NATO countries to send more warplanes to Ukraine. But that idea is complicated by questions about how to provide aircraft to Ukrainian pilots.
He later urged the West to tighten its sanctions on Russia, saying that “the audacity of the aggressor is a clear signal" that existing sanctions are not enough.
A senior US defense official said Sunday that the U.S. assesses that about 95% of the Russian forces that had been arrayed around Ukraine are now inside the country. The official said Russian forces continue to advance in an attempt to isolate Kyiv, Kharkhiv and Chernihiv, but are being met with strong Ukrainian resistance.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss military assessments, said the convoy outside Kyiv continues to be stalled.
As he has often done, Putin blamed Ukraine for the war, telling Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday that Kyiv needed to stop all hostilities and fulfill “the well-known demands of Russia."
Putin launched his invasion with a string of false accusations against Kyiv, including that it is led by neo-Nazis intent on undermining Russia with the development of nuclear weapons.
The Russian Defense Ministry on Sunday announced that its forces intend to strike Ukraine’s military-industrial complex with what it said were precision weapons. A ministry spokesman, Igor Konashenkov, claimed in a statement carried by the state news agency Tass that Ukrainian personnel were being forced to repair damaged military equipment so that it could be sent back into action.
Zelenskyy criticized Western leaders for not responding to Russia's latest threat.
“I didn’t hear even a single world leader react to this,” Zelenskyy said Sunday evening.
The Russian Defense Ministry also alleged, without providing evidence, that Ukrainian forces are plotting to blow up an experimental nuclear reactor in Kharkiv and to blame it on a Russian missile strike.
Putin and French President Emmanuel Macron spoke Sunday about the nuclear situation in Ukraine, which has 15 nuclear reactors at four power plants and was the scene of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
The men agreed in principle to a “dialogue” involving Russia, Ukraine and the U.N.'s atomic watchdog, according to a French official who spoke on condition of anonymity, in line with the presidency’s practices. Potential talks on the issue are to be organized in the coming days, he said.
Putin also blamed the fire last week at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, which Ukrainian officials said was caused by Russian attackers, on a “provocation organized by Ukrainian radicals."
International leaders, as well as Pope Francis, appealed to Putin to negotiate.
In a highly unusual move, the pope said he had dispatched two cardinals to Ukraine to try to end the conflict.
“In Ukraine, rivers of blood and tears are flowing,” the pontiff said in his traditional Sunday blessing.
The death toll remains unclear. The U.N. says it has confirmed just a few hundred civilian deaths but also warned that the number is a vast undercount.
About eight civilians were killed by Russian shelling in the town of Irpin, on the northwest outskirts of Kyiv, according to Mayor Oleksander Markyshin. The dead included a family.
Video footage showed a shell slamming into a city street, not far from a bridge used by people fleeing the fighting. A group of fighters could be seen trying to help the family.
The handful of residents who managed to flee Mariupol before the humanitarian corridor closed said the city of 430,000 had been devastated.
“We saw everything: houses burning, all the people sitting in basements,” said Yelena Zamay, who fled to one of the self-proclaimed republics in eastern Ukraine held by pro-Russian separatists. “No communication, no water, no gas, no light, no water. There was nothing.”
British military officials compared Russia’s tactics to those Moscow used in Chechnya and Syria, where surrounded cities were pulverized by airstrikes and artillery.
Zelenskyy reiterated a request for foreign protectors to impose a no-fly zone over Ukraine, which NATO so far has ruled out because of concerns such an action would lead to a far wider war.
“The world is strong enough to close our skies,” Zelenskyy said Sunday in a video address.
Ukraine’s military is greatly outmatched by Russia’s, but its professional and volunteer forces have fought back with fierce tenacity. In Kyiv, volunteers lined up Saturday to join the military.
The West has broadly backed Ukraine, offering aid and weapon shipments and slapping Russia with vast sanctions. But no NATO troops have been sent to Ukraine.
Ukraine is planning to create an international legion of volunteer fighters from dozens of countries. More than 20,000 people have volunteered, according to Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, though it was not clear how many were in Ukraine.
"The whole world today is on Ukraine’s side, not only in words but in deeds,” he said on Ukrainian television Sunday night.
Russia has made significant advances in southern Ukraine as it seeks to block access to the Sea of Azov. Capturing Mariupol could allow Moscow to establish a land corridor to Crimea, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014 in a move that most other countries considered illegal.
Russia has become increasingly isolated in the days since the invasion began, closing itself off to outside sources of information as sanctions bite deeply into its economy. The ruble has plunged in value, and dozens of multinational companies ended or dramatically scaled back their work in the country.
On Sunday, American Express announced it would suspend operations in Russia, as well as in Russian-allied Belarus. Also, two of the so-called Big Four accounting firms, KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers, said Sunday they would end their relationships with their Russia-based member firms.
TikTok announced Sunday Russian users would not be able to post new videos or see videos shared from elsewhere in the world. The company blamed Moscow’s new “fake news” law, which makes it illegal, among other things, to describe the fighting as an invasion. Netflix also cut its service to Russia but provided no details.
Facebook and Twitter have already been blocked in Russia, along with access to the websites of a number of major international media outlets. TikTok is part of the Chinese tech company ByteDance.
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Congress is exploring how to further isolate Russia from the global economy, including banning the import of its oil and energy products into the United States. Pelosi said Sunday that the legislation under consideration would also repeal normal trade relations with Russia and Belarus and begin the process of denying Russia access to the World Trade Organization.
