Heavy fighting rages on the outskirts of Kyiv

Heavy fighting raged on the outskirts of Kyiv and other zones on Thursday. Meanwhile, a convoy of buses headed to Mariupol in another bid to evacuate people from the besieged port city after the Russian military agreed to a limited cease-fire in the area. A new round of talks aimed at stopping the fighting was scheduled for Friday.

The Red Cross



said its teams were headed for Mariupol with medical supplies and other relief and hoped to take civilians out of the beleaguered city. Tens of thousands have managed to get out in the past few weeks by way of humanitarian corridors, reducing the city’s population from 430,000 to an estimated 100,000 as of last week