Russia-Ukraine War: Other important events in the conflict

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A Ukrainian military official said the country needed the most air defense programs in the world.

Satellite images from Planet Labs PBC show a large number of Belarus helicopters and suspected Russian aircraft at Machulishchy Air Base outside Minsk, Belarus, on Tuesday. And analysts believe that the floods in northern Kyiv seen on satellite images may have come from Ukrainian forces trying to stop Russia's progress.

Here are some important things to know about war:

WHAT HAS BEEN RECOGNIZED OR CONFIRMED BY ASOCIATED PRESS?

Women and children in Mariupol gathered in a basement as gunfire erupted in the distance. One of the women, Goma Janna, cried out, “Why should I not cry? I want my home, I want my job. I feel bad about the people and the city, the children. ”

Residents of Mariupol, a city of about 430,000 people, have no water, heat, sewage systems and telephone services for a few days, and many have turned to shoplifting. The video showed a Ukrainian soldier telling the people, “People, please unite. You do not need to panic. Please do not steal everything. You will live together here. ”

Videos show people boarding Sumy buses on Tuesday and buses marked with a red cross driving on a snowy road as they exit the city. Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said both sides had agreed to suspend the fighting from 9am to 9pm. to evacuate Sumy residents, heading southwest to the Ukrainian city of Poltava.

HOW IS IT GOING TO GET OUT?

Vereshchuk said 5,000 people had been evacuated from Sumy. Russian troops have given a different number, saying 723 people have been evacuated from the city and identified as Indian citizens, while others are from China, Jordan and Tunisia. It did not mention the Ukrainian people among the migrants.

But the planned evacuation of civilians in Mariupol failed because Russian troops fired a Ukrainian line carrying relief supplies to a city that would later evacuate people, Vereshchuk said.

Natalia Mudrenko, an official working for the U.N. of Ukraine, accused Russia of successfully holding "citizens" and said the "crisis" in Mariupol and other cities called for immediate action by world leaders and aid agencies.

He told a UN Security Council meeting Tuesday afternoon that citizens, especially women and children, were "not allowed to travel and no human assistance was allowed."

Russian troops have denied shooting convoys and blamed Ukraine for blocking the exit effort.

Repeated attempts to build safe exit routes have been unsuccessful since last weekend amid ongoing fighting and opposition to the proposed routes.

WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING ON EARTH?

Russian planes on Tuesday night bombed residential areas around Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, and Zhytomyr, west of Kyiv, and its troops also planted bombs in areas under Kyiv, Ukrainian paramedics said.

In Malyn, a village of 25,000 people near Zhytomyr, a bomb blast killed at least five people, including two children, and destroyed the textile industry and seven homes, the organization said. Two people, including a seven-year-old boy, were killed in a bomb blast in Chuhuiv, near Kharkiv.

Ukrainian officials have also reported serious cases in Kyiv areas in Bucha, Hostomel, Irpen, Vyshhorod and Borodianka, including the bodies of those who could not be buried.

The mayor of Lviv says the western city of Ukraine is struggling to feed and accommodate more than 200,000 refugees. The deportees are being held in city halls, schools, and other buildings.

About two weeks after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his offensive, his troops occupied the southern and coastal region of Ukraine but saw their continued presence in many places, including Kyiv.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has vowed that his country will fight the Russian invasion of its cities, territories and river banks.

"We will not give up and we will not lose," he told the British House of Commons in a video, echoing the "never surrender" speech given by Winston Churchill during World War II.

HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE BEEN KILLED?

Thousands are thought to have been killed, civilians and soldiers, although the exact number is unknown.

The US believes Russia undermined resistance to Ukraine before launching an attack and losing thousands of people, National Intelligence Director Avril Haines told lawmakers Tuesday in Washington.

WHAT ABOUT HELP IN UKRAINE?

Additional air defense skills are important at No. 1 in Ukraine, Maj. Gen. Borys Kremenetskyi, Ukraine's defense attorney and ambassador to Washington, said Tuesday after a visit to the Pentagon.

“It could be ground-based air defense systems. It could be fighter jets, anything can happen, ”Kremenetskyi told the Associated Press.

He said there were countries around the world that had Soviet air defense systems that Ukrainian people could work on.

"The US government can also encourage those countries to provide us with these equipment," he said.

Poland said on Tuesday it would supply all its MiG-29 fighter jets to the US, Ukrainian pilots trained to fly. But the Pentagon has responded that Poland's offer to donate US jets to be transferred to Ukraine cannot be maintained and raises serious concerns about the NATO alliance.

Pentagon spokesman John Kirb