News Desk :
Five people have been killed and 13 injured in shelling of the city of Kharkiv, reports quoting local officials.
Besides, Ukrainian MP Oleksiy Goncharenko tells the BBC that Ukrainian soldiers in Mariupol won’t surrender to Russia.
Petro Andriushchenko, an adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, says “our defenders continue to hold the defence”
Earlier Russia had said it would spare the lives of Ukrainian soldiers in Mariupol if they lay down their arms on Sunday
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky earlier said eliminating Ukrainian fighters in Mariupol would put an end to talks.
Russia is planning to restrict access to Mariupol from Monday, city officials say.
Ukrainian forces will ‘fight to the end’ in Mariupol – PM
In an interview with ABC, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said that remaining Ukrainian forces in the southern port city of Mariupol are still fighting and will continue to defy Russia’s ultimatum for them to surrender. “The city has not fallen”, Shmyhal said.
On Sunday, Russia said it would guarantee the lives of Ukrainian soldiers who would surrender, with the Kremlin adding that the only Ukrainian soldiers left in the city were at a giant steelworks. Other Ukrainian officials have been reiterating the same message. Ukrainian MP Oleksiy Goncharenko told the BBC earlier on that he had spoken to soldiers in Mariupol and “they’re going to fight until the end”.
