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Ukraine invasion: UN issues emergency US$1.7 billion relief appeal; China urges Kyiv to negotiate
- UN estimates that 12 million people inside Ukraine will need the relief, and that 4 million refugees may need help in neighbouring countries
- China’s Wang Yi tells Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba ‘to find a way to resolve the issue through negotiations’
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The United Nations issued an emergency appeal for US$1.7 billion of relief for Ukrainians under assault from Russian shells, which pounded civilian targets in Ukraine’s second-largest city again on Tuesday, the sixth day of the invasion.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the European Parliament by video link on Tuesday and repeated the previous day’s call for Ukraine’s immediate admission to the European Union.
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A Kremlin representative said it was “too early to assess” the results of talks between the two sides, which concluded in Belarus on Monday with no resolution.
“We need to analyse and think about perspective after talks with Ukraine,” the representative said. “Ukraine’s EU application is not a strategic security question because the EU is not a military bloc.”
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More than 660,000 refugees have fled the conflict in Ukraine to seek shelter in neighbouring countries, the UN Refugee Agency said on Tuesday. The United Nations human rights office, meanwhile, said it has recorded the deaths of 136 civilians, including 13 children, since the start of Russia’s invasion, but warned the toll may be far higher.
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