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Mar 20 15 tweets 3 min read
Ukraine news 🧵 on @bbcworldservice at 0001 AM 20.03 - listen live: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/li…

The mayor of the besieged Ukrainian port of Mariupol has accused the Russian army of forcibly transferring thousands of residents into Russia -- as fighting continues (cont.) #bbcnews
for control of the city. Vadym Boychenko said some had been sent to remote Russian cities, and the fate of others was unknown. On Friday Russia's defence ministry said nearly eight thousand Ukrainians had expressed their desire to escape to Russia. Around 300 000 civilians
are trapped inside Mariupol, a city largely destroyed by Russian bombardment. People who've managed to escape have described horrendous conditions -- bodies are lying unburied and food is running out. Fighting has hampered efforts
to rescue hundreds trapped in the basement of a theatre that was bombed on Wednesday.

More details have emerged about Friday's Russian missile attacks on a military barracks in Ukraine's Black Sea port of Mykolayiv. A source has told the BBC that about 200 soldiers
were sleeping in the barracks when three Russian missiles hit the base on the northern edge of the city. A Ukrainian soldier has told the French news agency that at least 50 bodies have been recovered, but he couldn't say how many others were still buried in the rubble.
President Volodomyr Zelensky of Ukraine has used a speech to a rally in Switzerland to criticise Swiss firms which have chosen to carry on doing business with Russia. In a video message screened outside the Swiss parliament, Mr Zelensky singled out the food giant Nestle.
Nestlé responded by saying it had significantly scaled back operations in Russia, but had taken the decision to continue to provide the Russian people with essential food and beverages. It insisted its current operations were not generating any profit in the country.
President Zelensky also urged Swiss banks to freeze the funds of the Kremlin elite -- saying the money of the people that unleashed the war was in their vaults. Thousands of demonstrators listened to Mr Zelensky's speech, including the Swiss president Ignazio Cassis.
A Ukrainian negotiator has called on China to join the West in condemning the Russian invasion. Mykhailo Podolyak wrote on Twitter that China could play an important role in global security if it chose to condemn Russian barbarism. Highlighting the difference between
China's trade with the West and with Russia he said the Europeans should explain the difference between 1.6
trillion and 150 billion dollars. President Zelensky has again appealed for peace and what he described as "meaningful" talks with Russia.
The UN human rights office has said that at least 847 civilians have been killed in Ukraine since the Russian invasion began. It said most of the casualties were caused by the use of explosive weapons, including shelling from heavy artillery, and missile and air strikes.
The OHCHR, which has a large monitoring team in Ukraine, said it believed the actual figures were considerably higher, as it had not yet been able to corroborate reports of casualties in areas such as Mariupol, where fierce fighting continues.
An Ukrainian military spokesman has confirmed that a weapons depot in the west of the country was hit in a Russian missile strike, adding that Moscow was using Ukraine as testing ground for its entire arsenal of missiles. The Russian defence ministry had earlier said it
had used hypersonic missiles to destroy what it said was an underground ammunition warehouse in the Ivano- Frankivsk region. Hypersonic missiles are extremely fast and can manoeuvre mid-flight, making them hard to track and intercept.
Russia is a world-leader in such technology. If confirmed, it would be the first time Moscow has used hypersonic missiles in combat.

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Ukraine news 🧵 on @bbcworldservice at 2300 on 20.03 - listen live bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/li…

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