Key words : civilian casualties missile attack
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Civilian casualties are increasing in Ukraine as fierce fighting continues in the country's south and east.
Russian forces are encircling the capital, Kyiv, and launching missile attacks on Mykolaiv in the south and Mariupol in the east.
The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, or OHCHR, said 847 civilians, including at least 64 children, had been killed by Friday.
The city of Mariupol has been isolated by attacks from Russian forces. Intense street fighting is believed to be underway and many residents have fled the city.
One person who evacuated to the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia said many people died on the street and bodies were left where they fell.
People are receiving combat training across the country to prepare for expected street fighting. Young citizens in the southern city of Odesa were taught how to use automatic rifles on Friday as the city anticipates a major attack by the Russian military.
A Ukrainian news agency reported on Saturday that at least 10 Russian senior military officers had been killed since the invasion began three weeks ago.
Ceasefire talks may face difficulties as fierce battle continues.
On Saturday, Russia's defense ministry unilaterally claimed Ukrainians could use chemical weapons. It said Ukrainian nationalists are planning to use ammonia and chlorine in Sumy in the northeast and explode containers of toxic chemicals in Mykolaiv in the south.
US and British defense authorities suggest in their analyses that Russian forces are running into difficulties in the face of stiff resistance from Ukrainian troops.
Concerns are growing that Russia may escalate its attacks based on misinformation.
Key words : hypersonic
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The Russian military says it destroyed a military facility in western Ukraine using its latest hypersonic missiles.
Russia's defense ministry announced on Saturday that its forces used the Kinzhal missile system to target a Ukrainian underground ammunition depot in the Ivano-Frankivsk region.
Hypersonic missiles can travel much faster than the speed of sound, and are considered difficult to intercept. It is apparently the first time that Russia has used hypersonic missiles in its invasion of Ukraine.
The move comes as US and British defense authorities suggest in their analyses that Russian forces are running into difficulties in the face of stiff resistance from Ukrainian troops.
The Russian military may have sought to show off its military might by announcing the use of the latest weapon in combat.
Key words : journalist covering
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An increasing number of journalists covering Russia's invasion of Ukraine are falling victim to the attacks.
The Ukrainian parliament and the interior ministry say that as of March 15, five journalists had been killed and at least 35 others had been wounded.
Local human rights groups say the Russians are detaining journalists and activists across Ukraine.
Independent Ukrainian media outlet Hromadske reported on Saturday that its journalist Victoria Roshchina is missing.
The media outlet says Roshchina had been covering stories in eastern and southern Ukraine since the Russian invasion started.
It suspects she might have been detained by the Russians.
A posting on its Facebook page says it has done everything it can to get her released, but their efforts have proved to be ineffective. It is calling on the international community to share information and take action to secure her release.
Key words : poland 2 million id cards
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Thousands of Ukrainians seeking ID cards are forming long lines at the national stadium in the Polish capital of Warsaw.
About 2 million people from Ukraine are seeking refuge in Poland since Russia invaded their country more than three weeks ago.
The ID card will allow them to work, go to school and stay in Poland.
Polish local governments began issuing the ID numbers.
A makeshift office was set up at the national stadium in Warsaw where hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians are staying.
Many women with children and older people were already there waiting when the process began at 8 a.m.
They showed their passports to get the ID cards.
A 19-year-old woman said that she fled with her family from Mykolaiv in southern Ukraine where many people reportedly have been killed by Russian attacks.
She said she wants to stay in Warsaw till the war ends because she is with her old grandmother. She added that she wants to go to university there.
A 36-year-old mother from Kyiv said she wants to stay there for at least six months and to get a same type of job that she held in Kyiv.
Her 8-year-old daughter said she does not know if she will like her new school but she will give it a try and that she believes time will solve any problem.
One of the Polish officials said it is their will and duty to help their neighbors and those in need and that they are working because they want to help them.
Key words : 3.3 million
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The United Nations' refugee agency has said that as of Friday, more than 3.3 million people had fled Ukraine to other countries since the Russian invasion.
The Office of the UNHCR said about 2 million people are now in Poland, 520,000 in Romania and 360,000 in Moldova. And about 180,000 people have gone to Russia.
The International Organization for Migration said on Friday that an estimated 6.48 million people had been displaced within Ukraine by Wednesday.
Key words : ukrainian woman relatives
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A Ukrainian woman who has just brought her relatives from Poland to Japan has called for help for her compatriots who cannot afford to do the same.
Liliya Ivanyuk, a resident of Aichi Prefecture, Japan, gave an interview to NHK.
Liliya is from Zhytomyr, northwestern Ukraine. She moved to Japan 18 years ago.
Her mother told her on March 4 that she would flee Russian attacks and evacuate to Poland. She decided to bring her mother and sister and the sister's two children to Japan from Poland.
On March 5, Liliya arrived in the Polish capital, Warsaw.
There, she saw a railway station with an overwhelming number of Ukrainian evacuees and heard the loud crying of many children.
Even in that chaotic situation, she was able to reunite with her mother and her sister's family.
She managed to find a flight for them to Japan on her own and returned to Japan with her relatives on March 13. But her sister, who tested positive for the coronavirus in a pre-departure test, could not make it. The travel cost her over a million yen, or 8,400 dollars.
While in Poland, she heard stories of many Ukrainians who want to evacuate to Japan but said they cannot, citing expensive flight tickets or other reasons.
Liliya believes further support for those people is necessary, such as the provision of chartered flights to Japan.
She says she hopes many Ukrainians who fled to Poland and who wish to evacuate to Japan will be able to arrive here soon.
Key words : group of young
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A group of young people have staged a protest in the capital of Moldova against the Russian military invasion of Ukraine.
Many Ukrainians have fled the country to neighboring Moldova since the invasion began.
In front of the Russian Embassy in Chisinau on Saturday, more than 20 youths chanted that they want peace and oppose war, holding banners bearing the message that the Russian military should leave Ukraine.
The protest was organized by some high school students.
After the rally, the participants wrote messages to Russian President Vladimir Putin which were to be handed to officials of the embassy.
They wrote messages like "Wake up!", "Stop war!" and "Glory to Ukraine!"
A 17-year-old man noted that the war is meaningless and it should not have happened. He added that he hopes Russia stops its aggression and peace will prevail in Ukraine.
Moldova is one of the 15 former Soviet republics. It has an ethnic Russian minority and is heavily dependent on Russia in some areas, such as energy.
There is a growing sense of crisis and opposition to Russian behavior among Moldovans.
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Key words : shinkansen back on the rail
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Work has begun on a derailed shinkansen bullet train in northeastern Japan to put it back on the rail. The train derailed when a powerful earthquake with an intensity of 6-plus on the Japanese scale of zero to 7 hit the region on Wednesday. It was travelling in Miyagi Prefecture.
On Sunday, workers began jacking up the front car of the train in an attempt to reposition it on the rails.
The operator of the Tohoku Shinkansen Line, East Japan Railway Company, or JR East, says the work will probably take several days. It says it will continue to assess the extent of damage to the railway system along the line during the work.
The earthquake knocked 16 of the train's 17 cars off the rails.
The operator had found distorted rails, broken overhead power lines, and extensive damage to the structures of elevated tracks and utility poles. It says such damage is unprecedented and beyond what they had anticipated.
It has suspended operations between Nasushiobara Station in Tochigi Prefecture and Morioka Station in Iwate Prefecture due to the damage.
It says it plans to resume operations section by section, as it appears difficult to resume operations for the entire line by the end of this month.
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