March, 2022 | últimas notícias

Ukraine says Russia seized relief workers in Mariupol convoy

Ukrainian leaders accused Russia of seizing 15 rescue workers and drivers from a humanitarian convoy of 11 buses that had been expected to evacuate residents.

“Employees of the state emergency service and bus drivers have been taken captive,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.

He estimated that 100,000 civilians remained in Mariupol, once home to more than 400,000 people, after weeks of shelling that have battered the city.

‘I thought I was going to die’: Tornadoes rip through Texas, Oklahoma

The spate of tornadoes began in Texas on Monday afternoon, causing catastrophic damage to homes, businesses and power lines.

More than 48,000 Texas households were without power Tuesday morning, according to poweroutage.us. Several Houston area schools opened late Tuesday as thousands of residents faced power outages and a flash flood warning.

One person died after a tornado whipped through Sherwood Shores, Texas, injuring several people, the Texas Department of Public Safety confirmed to local media.

Farther south, three people were severely injured in Houston County after two mobile homes were destroyed, local media reported. In Elgin, a suburb of Austin, three people were injured, including two who were rescued Monday night after they were trapped in a collapsed structure, police said.

Four people were rescued Tuesday after they were trapped under flattened buildings in the town of Bowie about 70 miles northwest of Fort Worth, Fox 4 News reported. No injuries were reported, according to the news station.

Rescuers scouring a remote Chinese mountainside Tuesday discovered charred personal belongings from the wreckage of the China Eastern plane that mysteriously fell from the sky a day earlier — but still no sign of any survivors.

Wallets, bank cards and official identity cards have been among the items so far located near the crash site of China Eastern Flight 5735 in the southern region of Guangxi, China’s state media said.

Small pieces of the Boeing 737-800 plane that crashed near the city of Wuzhou have also been found scattered throughout the mountainside, with videos showing patches of land charred by the fiery wreckage.

Rescue workers search for the plane’s black boxes on March 22, 2022.

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Search teams were using their hands, picks, sniffer dogs and drones to look for survivors on both sides of the mountain into which the plane crashed.

“As of now, the rescue has yet to find survivors,” a grim-faced Zhu Tao, director of the Office of Aviation Safety at the Civil Aviation Authority of China, told a news conference.

Local media and authorities haven’t revealed whether any human remains have been found.

The flight had been carrying 132 people on board when it plummeted 30,000 feet Monday and burst into a huge fireball, the airline said. No foreigners were on the plane, according to an initial analysis by China’s Foreign Ministry.

Paramilitary police officers work at the site where a China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-800 crashed.

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Pieces of the downed aircraft in Tengxian county, in south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.

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Zhu said efforts were now focused on finding the plane’s black box, which holds the flight data and cockpit voice recorders, as officials try to establish the cause of the crash.

He added that the aircraft did not respond to repeated calls from air controllers during its rapid descent. The plane stopped transmitting data about a minute and a half after it started to lose altitude.

“The jet was seriously damaged during the crash, and investigations will face a very high level of difficulty,” Zhu said.

Footage of the fiery crash.

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“We still do not have a clear assessment of the cause for the crash.”

Rescue officials had earlier revealed that Flight 5735 had disintegrated upon impact.

The flight was traveling at 30,000 feet when it suddenly started to nosedive at about 2:20 p.m. Monday. It plunged to about 7,400 feet, then briefly regained 1,200 feet, before it plunged again at a rate of 31,000 feet per minute, according to FlighRadar24, a flight tracking website.

Rescuers search at the site of the crash in Tengxian County in China on March 22, 2022.

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Horrifying footage captured the doomed plane’s free fall toward the ground, and the subsequent fiery crash was large enough to be seen on NASA satellite images.

The pilots may have been unresponsive just before the crash because of their training, aviation experts said.

“If they were dealing with an emergency, pilots are taught to aviate, navigate, then communicate.’ Meaning, fly the airplane first,” said William Waldock, a professor of safety science at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, Ariz.

Pieces of the Boeing 737-800 have been found scattered throughout the mountainside.

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“If it was some sort of major mechanical problem, they may have had their hands full trying to control the aircraft.”

The flight had taken off from the city of Kunming and was en route to Guangzhou.

Family members of those on board gathered at both Kunming and Guangzhou airports on Tuesday awaiting news of their loved ones.

Relatives of the passengers wait for news.

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The crash is the first major airline disaster for China in a decade after the country pushed to improve its safety protocols since the turn of the century.

China last reported a major airline disaster in 2010, when a Henan Airlines flight crashed short of a runway in Yichun. Pilot error was blamed in that case — which left 44 people dead.

China Eastern’s last fatal crash was in November 2004, when a CRJ-200 plummeted into a frozen lake, killing 43 people on board and two people on the ground in Baotou in Inner Mongolia.

Militia members set up tents near the crash site.

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Monday’s crash also has implications for airplane manufacturer Boeing, which saw its 737 Max model grounded for nearly two years after crashes in 2018 and 2019. The Boeing 737-800 is an earlier model than the 737 Max.

Boeing Chief Executive Dave Calhoun said the company was offering its technical experts to help in the investigation.

“The thoughts of all of us at Boeing are with the passengers and crew members … as well as their families and loves ones,” Calhoun wrote in a message to Boeing employees.

China Eastern Flight 5735 crashed on Monday with 132 people on board.

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China’s Communist Party has been planning to manufacture its own large passenger jets to compete with Boeing.

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Ukraine has rejected an ultimatum to surrender its besieged port city of Mariupol to Russian forces. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told Eurovision News that ultimatums won’t work as trapped Ukrainians will “fight till the end.”

Meanwhile, the Pentagon said Ukrainian forces — including civilians — have put up a strong resistance against Russian forces, and the Kremlin is struggling to achieve its goals in Ukraine. “I think what we’re seeing here is the Russians have been flummoxed, they’ve been frustrated,” said Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby.

Earlier, Ukrainian authorities said Moscow had demanded Mariupol be handed over by 5 a.m. Russian forces said they would spare the lives of those who complied with their surrender ultimatum and would allow civilians to leave if their demands were met.

Thousands of civilians are trapped in the city, which is running dangerously low on vital supplies like food, water and medicines.

‘Russians have been flummoxed’: Pentagon says Russia is struggling to achieve its goals

Nearly a month since Russia invaded Ukraine, Russian forces have been unable to achieve their objectives, according to the U.S. Department of Defense.

“We’re on day 26 [and] the Russians have clearly not achieved many, or almost all of the objectives that … we believe they were setting out to achieve,” said Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby at a briefing on Monday.

“They wanted to get after population centers so that they could take control of key ports, key cities, key government institutions,” he said, adding that the Kremlin wanted to install a government that is “more friendly to Russia.”

So far, Kirby said, Pentagon leaders believe the Russians have taken Kherson, and the Ukrainians have launched a counterattack there.

“I think what we’re seeing here is the Russians have been flummoxed, they’ve been frustrated. They have failed to achieve a lot of their objectives on the ground,” he added.

— Sumathi Bala

Trapped Ukrainians will ‘fight till the end’ and ultimatums won’t work, says Zelenskyy

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in an interview with Eurovision News that his country will not submit to ultimatums from Russia.

“People will either leave the city or those who cannot leave will fight till the end. Therefore, an ultimatum, is a bad thing because it will lead to genocide and the destruction of the Ukrainian people,” he told the European Broadcasting Union, an alliance of public broadcasters, on Monday.

Whether it comes to Ukraine’s membership to NATO, or other forms of compromises, it needs to be accepted by the people, Zelenskyy added.

“When you talk about certain changes and they can be historic, we are not going anywhere. We will come to the referendum. Our people will have to say and give an answer to certain formats of compromises,” he said. “What will those be? It will be defined by our conversation and understanding between Ukraine and Russia.”

The president said residents of occupied cities such as Melitopol and Berdyansk will continue to resist Russian forces.

“We hate these troops who are destroying us and killing our people, [and we hate] their policy. We don’t care, if we want peace, we need to sit down and talk,” he added. “The right word is to negotiate. Negotiate as you have to. But to negotiate, not to execute ultimatums.”

— Sumathi Bala

Ukrainian girl who went viral for singing “Let it Go” in Kyiv bomb shelter performs in Poland

Seven-year-old Amellia Anisovych, a refugee from Ukraine, center, sings the Ukraine national anthem at the start of a fund-raising concert in Lodz, Poland, Sunday, March 20, 2022.

Anisovych became widely known for singing a song from the movie Frozen in a bomb shelter in Kyiv in early March. She has since come to Poland with her grandmother and brother.

Her parents remained in Kyiv.

—Associated Press

Democrat refuses to take donations from Koch Industries as company remains in Russia

Rep. Kurt Schrader, D-Ore., won’t accept future donations from Koch Industries and will contribute what it has recently received to a charity dedicated to providing aid to Ukraine, spokeswoman Deb Barnes told CNBC on Monday.

The move comes after Koch Industries decided to continue doing business in Russia, even as other major U.S. and European companies flee the country to avoid sanctions over its invasion of Ukraine.

Schrader’s campaign received $4,500 from the Koch Industries’ political action committee during the 2022 election cycle, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks campaign donations and spending.

Ethics attorneys say that the donations could represent an effort by Koch to influence lawmakers as they work to provide further help to Ukraine, with some lawyers calling for those on Capitol Hill to return the contributions.

More than two dozen lawmakers saw nearly $110,000 from the Koch Industries PAC in February, as Russian President Vladimir Putin started moving his forces into Ukraine.

— Brian Schwartz

Russian naval activity in the Black Sea has increased, Pentagon says

Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said the U.S. has observed an increase in Russian naval activity in the Black Sea near the Ukrainian city of Odesa.

Kirby said that some of the bombardment around Odesa is coming from a mixture of different types of Russian warships in the sea but was unable to confirm munitions or targets.

“We just see indications that they have increased their activity in the northern Black Sea. That’s not something that we had observed over the last few days,” Kirby said.

Earlier in the day, a senior Defense official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told reporters that it was too soon to say whether Russian forces were planning an amphibious assault of Odesa.

– Amanda Macias

U.S. corporations should be ‘prepared for the worst’

U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and other Biden administration officials warned business leaders they should be “prepared for the worst” as world leaders punish Russia with crippling economic sanctions over President Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine.

Executives across energy, food and manufacturing industries met with Raimondo, President Joe Biden, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and others to discuss the war.

While NATO allies are doing everything to pressure Putin to end the war quickly, “we know that that might not be possible. And so we’re also prepared for this to last quite a long time,” Raimondo told reporters after the meeting.

— Dawn Kopecki

Russians trying to encircle Mariupol, Pentagon says

The Pentagon said Russian troops are attempting to encircle the southeastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol but have yet to take it from Ukrainian forces.

“They clearly want to take Mariupol. It’s a city port city there on the Sea of Azov and it’s a link between the Donbas area and Crimea,” Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said during a press conference.

“You can see why Mariupol might be of interest but the Ukrainians are defending it bravely and have been able to stymie the Russians’ efforts to take it,” he said.

Kirby added that the Russians have attempted to encircle Mariupol from both the north and up its coast.

– Amanda Macias

Zelenskyy says Russia will have to ‘destroy us all’ before it surrenders Mariupol

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia will have to “destroy us all” before it will surrender the port city of Mariupol, according to a transcript of an interview he did with several public broadcasters.

Russian National Defense Control Center Head Mikhail Mizintsev has said the Kremlin would allow peaceful civilians to evacuate Mariupol — only after Ukraine’s military surrendered the city and left unarmed, NBC News reported.

“Ukraine cannot fulfill these demands. They would first have to destroy us all to have their ultimatum fulfilled,” Zelenskyy said in the interview translated by NBC News. “We would never give Kharkiv, Mariupol or Kyiv. Neither residents of those cities, nor I, the president can do this.”

In a separate nterview with NBC News, Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said at least 14 local leaders had been kidnapped or abducted by Russian troops since the invasion began. NBC News has not been able to independently verify that, but Vereshchuk said the abductions include mayors and leaders of the territorial communities.

— Dawn Kopecki

NATO official sees Russia war entering a stalemate

The nearly monthlong Russian war in Ukraine is on the verge of entering a stalemate, said a senior NATO intelligence official, with Ukrainian forces preventing Russia from making progress but Russian President Vladimir Putin showing no willingness to back down.

“If we’re not in a stalemate, we are rapidly approaching one,” said the NATO official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive military assessments. “The reality is that neither side has a superiority over the other.”

Belarus, a close Russian ally, may soon attack Ukraine itself and is preparing to potentially let Russia position nuclear weapons on Belarusian soil, the official said. Belarus has already allowed Russia’s military to use its territory to invade Ukraine.

— NBC News

Russian forces make little progress in advance on Kyiv

A senior U.S. Defense official said Russian forces in Ukraine have made little progress in their advance on Kyiv.

The official, who asked not to be named to share details of the combat, said that Russian troops are still approximately 10 to 15 miles outside of Kyiv’s city center, a distance Russian forces attained weeks ago and have yet to shorten.

Last week, the same Defense official said it was the Pentagon’s belief that Russian forces plan to encircle Kyiv.

The official said the Pentagon has received anecdotal reports of some Russian troops experiencing morale issues but cautioned that the U.S. was not able to assess how much of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s military felt this way.

For weeks, Russian forces have been slow to alleviate long-standing logistical challenges, including the resupply of food and fuel to troops on the front.

– Amanda Macias

Russia has launched more than 1,100 missiles since start of war

Russian forces have launched more than 1,100 missiles during the Kremlin’s 26-day war in Ukraine, according to a senior U.S. Defense official.

The tempo of missile launches, a mixture of short and medium-range as well as cruise and ballistic, have increased out of frustration over a stalled Russian ground fight.

The official, who asked to remain anonymous to share details of the fighting, said the U.S. is no longer providing a tally of where the missiles are being fired from. In previous weeks, the Pentagon said nearly half were being fired from mobile platforms inside of Ukraine.

The Defense official was unable to confirm reports that Russian forces fired a hypersonic missile into Ukraine and instead added that the use of such a weapon might have been used to stoke fear.

– Amanda Macias

Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher raised over $34 million for Ukrainian refugees

Actors Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis have raised more than $34 million in donations for humanitarian aid to Ukraine and temporary housing for Ukrainian refugees, according to the couple’s Go Fund Me page.

Kunis was born in Ukraine, and she calls herself “a proud Ukrainian.”

The money raised is going to the charitable arms of two Silicon Valley startups, housing rental giant Airbnb and shipping broker Flexport. Airbnb is providing free short-term housing to Ukrainian refugees, while Flexport is overseeing relief shipments for refugees.

Top donors to the campaign include billionaire Larry Ellison, tech venture capitalist Yuri Milner and model Karlie Kloss and her husband Josh Kushner.

— Christina Wilkie

More than 920 killed due to conflict in Ukraine, UN says

Editor’s note: Graphic content. The following post contains images of casualties in Ukraine.

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights said more than 920 people have died due to the armed conflict in Ukraine.

The UN’s tally, which spans from Feb. 24 to March 20, includes 925 deaths and 1,496 injuries. Of those killed, 39 are reported as children.

“Most of the civilian casualties recorded were caused by the use of explosive weapons with a wide impact area, including shelling from heavy artillery and multiple-launch rocket systems, and missile and air strikes,” the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights wrote in a release.

The international group also “believes that the actual figures are considerably higher” but adds that reporting is delayed and difficult to corroborate.

– Amanda Macias

Global regulators worry crypto assets are being used to evade sanctions

The global Financial Stability Board is closely scrutinizing the use of crypto assets during the war in Ukraine after concerns they could be used to evade Western sanctions on Russia.

Some crypto exchanges have rejected calls to cut off all Russian users, raising concerns that crypto could be used as a way to circumvent sanctions.

Ukraine has also raised millions of dollars in cryptocurrencies after posting appeals on social media for donations in bitcoin and other digital tokens.

The FSB, which groups financial regulators, central banks and finance ministry officials from the Group of 20 economies, is sharing the information it obtains among its members.

– Reuters

Biden to speak with Macron, Scholz, Draghi and Johnson ahead of NATO meeting

President Joe Biden will speak with French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson about Russia’s unprovoked war in Ukraine.

The 11 a.m. ET secure conference call with allies comes ahead of this week’s emergency NATO leaders meeting in Brussels, Belgium.

Later in the day, Biden will also consult with Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, national security advisor Jake Sullivan, National Economic Council Director Brian Deese, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and CEOs about the U.S. response to Russia’s assault on its neighbor, which has gone on for nearly a month.

– Amanda Macias

Israeli field hospital to open in Lviv

Maksym Kozytskyi, head of the Lviv Regional State Administration, announced that an Israeli field hospital will be opened in the Lviv region on March 22.

The hospital — which will be in the Yavoriv district of the city of Mostyska — will provide assistance to internally displaced people as well as residents of Mostyska and surrounding communities, Kozytskyi said in a Telegram post.

“The medical institution will operate in specially equipped tents. Here, Israeli doctors will conduct an initial examination, as well as a separate insulator,” he said.

“If a person needs surgery, Israeli specialists will be able to operate on the premises of the community hospital. Three wards [will be] equipped for the inpatient stay of patients in the hospital: men’s, women’s and children’s. Almost 100 people will work in the bridge hospital, more than 60 are doctors.”

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed Israeli lawmakers on Sunday, urging them to impose sanctions on Russia in response to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.

Israel has condemned Russia’s attack on Ukraine, but has not imposed any economic sanctions on Moscow. Under Israeli law, sanctions can only be imposed on a country designated as an enemy state, according to NBC News.

— Chloe Taylor

Russia has shelled Zhytomyr region for the first time, official says

Vitaliy Bunechko, governor of Ukraine’s Zhytomyr region, said in an address posted to Facebook that Zhytomyr had been shelled for the first time since the Russian invasion began.

“Zhytomyr region was shelled for the first time by Grad missiles,” a caption accompanying the address said, according to an NBC News translation. “Three servicemen and one civilian were killed.”

CNBC has not been able to independently verify this information.

In recent weeks, Russian forces have been widening their attacks and targeting cities further into Ukraine’s west — away from the Russian border.

On Friday, missiles hit the outskirts of Lviv, a city in western Ukraine which — until the attack — had not been the site of active hostilities. Many Ukrainians fleeing their homes have poured into Lviv as Russia’s invasion rages on.

— Chloe Taylor

Images show destroyed Retroville shopping mall in Kyiv

Images show the destruction of the Retroville shopping mall after a Russian attack on the northwest of Ukraine’s capital city Kyiv.

Editors’ note: Images contain graphic content.

— Getty Images

Kyiv imposes new curfew, advises residents to wear respirators outside

Residents of Kyiv have been advised to wear medical respirators outside as the Ukrainian capital prepares for another curfew order to begin.

In a video posted to Telegram, Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitcshko said the air in the capital had become contaminated in the aftermath of Russian air strikes.

“Due to fires after air strikes in the capital and the region, air pollution is observed, so do not open the windows,” he said. “And when you go outside, protect your lungs by wearing a medical respirator, type FFP2.”

Meanwhile, the Kyiv City State Administration said on Telegram also on Monday that a fresh curfew would come into force in the capital from 8 p.m. local time. The curfew will last until 7 a.m. on Wednesday, authorities said.

Kyiv imposed a 35-hour curfew between Tuesday and Thursday last week.

Ukrainian officials additionally confirmed that eight people had been killed in an air strike on Kyiv’s Podil district late on Sunday.

— Chloe Taylor

Kremlin says talks with Ukraine not progressing as much as Russia would like

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters that there hasn’t been as much progress in talks with Ukraine as Moscow would like.

“The Russian side demonstrates a much greater willingness to work quickly and meaningfully than the negotiators from the Ukrainian side,” he claimed.

He said the Kremlin called on other countries to “use their influence on Kyiv in order to make Kyiv more compliant, more constructive in these negotiations.”

Peskov also said during the briefing that a meeting between Russia and Ukraine’s presidents can happen only once negotiations have been completed and any agreements between both sides have been coordinated.

“No significant progress has been made yet,” he told reporters. “To talk about the meeting of the two presidents … they have nothing to agree upon so far. There are no agreements that they can approve.”

— Chloe Taylor

Putin will attack more countries if we concede land, Ukrainian lawmaker says

Ukrainian lawmaker Oleksiy Goncharenko has told CNBC that Russia does not understand compromises, and if Ukraine concedes land to Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin will set his sights on the Baltic states.

— Chloe Taylor

Ammonia leak at chemicals plant contained, authorities say

An ammonia leak at a chemicals plant in the city of Sumy has been contained, officials have said.

As of 7:49 a.m. local time, the ammonia emissions had been eliminated, Ukraine’s Parliament said on the Telegram messaging app.

The update added that employees of the plant were working to restore its technological processes, and that emergency services had completed their work at the site.

The leak was reported at 4:30 a.m. local time, with authorities saying it had been caused by Russian shelling.

— Chloe Taylor

8 killed in Kyiv shelling, officials say

A shelling attack on Kyiv’s Podil district on Sunday evening killed eight civilians, Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office has said.

The office said Monday it launched an investigation into the shelling.

“Large-scale destruction and eight dead,” the office said in a statement. “It is established that in the evening of March 20, 2022, the armed forces of the Russian Federation, using the means of warfare prohibited by international law, fired missiles at the Podil district of the capital.”

The Prosecutor General’s Office said that as a result of the shelling, which led to a fire, a shopping mall was destroyed and windows in nearby houses and parked cars had been damaged.

“According to preliminary data, eight people died,” officials said. “Information on the dead and injured is being clarified. Rescuers and law enforcement officers are working on the scene to document the crime.”

— Chloe Taylor

Ukraine opening 8 humanitarian corridors

Eight humanitarian corridors will be opened in Ukraine on Monday, Ukraine’s Commissioner for Human Rights Liudmyla Denisova has said.

Evacuation routes will allow civilians to escape conflict raging in several locations across Ukraine, including the cities of Berdyansk and Mangush, and the villages of Mykilske, Melekine and Kozarovychi.

The corridors will also be used to deliver humanitarian aid to cities under siege.

— Chloe Taylor

Ukraine says Russia seizing food, goods to send back home

Ukraine’s armed forces said Russian troops were “terrorizing” local populations and looting in occupied cities.

“The enemy exports home appliances, cars, food and other material resources to the Russian Federation,” the update said.

Officials also accused Russia of ordering working-age men in the village of Stanychno-Luhansk to go to the local police department for registration on April 1.

“The reasons for this ‘registration’ are not explained, although it is connected with the next wave of mobilization to the 2nd Army Corps to be sent to the combat areas,” Ukrainian officials said.

A spokesperson for the Russian government was not immediately available for comment when contacted by CNBC.

— Chloe Taylor

Ammonia leak reported at chemicals plant in northeastern Ukraine

There is an ammonia leak at a chemicals plant in the city of Sumy in northeastern Ukraine, according to its regional governor in an update on messaging app Telegram.

The affected area has a radius of about 5km around the plant, said Sumy regional governor Dmytro Zhyvytskyy.

Emergency crews are working on site, but there is no threat to Sumy city at the moment as the wind direction isn’t toward the city, the update said. The leak was reported at 4:30 a.m. local time.

— Weizhen Tan

Mariupol rejects Russia’s surrender ultimatum

The besieged city of Mariupol has rejected an ultimatum from Russia to surrender by 5 a.m. today, according to Ukrainian authorities.

Ukraine’s Center for Strategic Communication said via Facebook early on Monday that Ukraine had rejected the demands from Moscow that Mayor of Mariupol Vadim Boychenko hand over the city by the deadline. It was unclear if the 5 a.m. cut-off was Mariupol time or Moscow time.

Russia had said it would open humanitarian corridors out of the city if Boychenko accepted the ultimatum.

Iryna Vereshchuk, Ukraine’s deputy prime minister, told newspaper Pravda in the early hours of Monday morning that Russian authorities had sent an eight-page letter that outlined “a ‘return to history’ and other nonsense.”

“They sent the same letter to the U.N., the International Committee of the Red Cross and hoped that international structures would react and begin to put pressure on Ukraine,” Vereshchuk said, according to an NBC News translation.

Meanwhile, Russian state-controlled news agency RIA reported overnight that the Russian side would spare the lives of “all those who laid down their arms,” citing Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the country’s National Center for Defense Control.

“We call on units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, territorial defense battalions, foreign mercenaries to stop hostilities, lay down their arms and enter the territories controlled by Kyiv along the humanitarian corridors agreed with the Ukrainian side,” Mizintsev said at a briefing on Sunday, according to RIA.

“At the same time, all those who laid down their arms are guaranteed a safe exit from Mariupol and the preservation of life.”

Mariupol is a key target in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as its capture could help Moscow create a land corridor to Crimea — a peninsula in the country’s south that it invaded and annexed in 2014.

— Chloe Taylor

Shares of Russia’s Rusal dive after alumina ban

The Hong Kong-listed shares of Rusal, a Russian aluminum producer, dropped by as much as 8.9% following an announcement by the Australian government that it would ban exports of alumina to Russia.

Several Australian ministries on Sunday jointly announced a ban on exports of alumina and aluminum ores including bauxite to Russia.

The ban is part of Australia’s sanctions against Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine.

Last week, Canberra sanctioned two Russian oligarchs who have links to Australia’s mining industry, Reuters reported. One was Oleg Deripaska, who holds a stake in Queensland Alumina, a joint venture between Rusal and Anglo-Australian mining company Rio Tinto.

The Sydney-traded shares of Rio Tinto edged higher on Monday.

— Ted Kemp

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Russian advances on Kyiv from the north-east have ‘stalled,’ says UK Defense Ministry

Russian forces advancing on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv from the north-east have “stalled,” according to the UK Defense Ministry’s latest intelligence update.

“Heavy fighting continues north of Kyiv,” the ministry said, adding that the city “remains Russia’s primary military objective” despite a continued lack of progress.

“Forces advancing from the direction of Hostomel to the north-west have been repulsed by fierce Ukrainian resistance.”

The bulk of Russia’s forces remain more than 25 kilometers from the center of the city, according to the ministry.

— Eustance Huang

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