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Kyiv, Ukraine: Here are the latest developments in the war in Ukraine:<\/p>\n
\u2013 Civilian evacuation paused \u2013 Ukraine says it is pausing the evacuation of civilians from the war-scarred east of the country for a day because of a failure to agree terms with Russian forces.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs of this morning, April 17, we have not been able to agree with the occupiers on a ceasefire on the evacuation routes. That is why, unfortunately, we are not opening humanitarian corridors today,\u201d Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk stated.<\/p>\n
\u2013 Military plant hit: Russia \u2013 Russia\u2019s defence ministry says it has struck a military plant outside Kyiv, as Moscow intensifies its attacks on the Ukrainian capital.<\/p>\n
\u201cDuring the night, high-precision, air-launched missiles destroyed an ammunitions factory near the settlement of Brovary, Kyiv region,\u201d the ministry said in a statement on Telegram.<\/p>\n
\u2013 \u2018Inhuman\u2019 situation in Mariupol \u2013 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says the situation in the eastern city of Mariupol is \u201cinhuman\u201d, warning the \u201celimination\u201d of the last Ukrainian troops defending would end peace talks with Russia.<\/p>\n \u201cRussia is deliberately trying to destroy everyone who is there,\u201d he says in a video address.<\/p>\n \u2013 Russian ultimatum \u2013 Russia\u2019s defence ministry says it has cleared the whole of Mariupol\u2019s \u201curban area\u201d of Ukrainian forces.<\/p>\n They say the only remaining Ukrainian soldiers are in the Azovstal metalworks \u2013 and that their only chance to live is to \u201clay down their arms and surrender\u201d.<\/p>\n \u2013 \u2018Useless\u2019 talking to Putin: Draghi \u2013 Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi has complained in a newspaper interview that Western diplomatic efforts to persuade Vladimir Putin to halt the war in Ukraine had so far led nowhere.<\/p>\n \u201cI am beginning to think that those people are right when they say \u2018It is useless to talk to him, it\u2019s just a waste of time\u2019,\u201d Draghi told the daily Il Corriere della Sera, adding Putin\u2019s goal appeared not peace but \u201cto annihilate the Ukrainian resistance, occupy the country and entrust it to a friendly government.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2013 Sanctions and reprisals \u2013 Amid escalating tit-for-tat sanctions, Russia bans entry to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and several of his senior ministers.<\/p>\n The Kremlin also steps up a crackdown on dissent at home, adding nine prominent Kremlin critics and journalists to its growing list of \u201cforeign agents\u201d.<\/p>\n A Russian court orders the pre-trial jailing of a Siberian news editor for alleging that 11 riot police refused to join the military campaign in Ukraine.<\/p>\n \u2013 Three killed in de-mining operation \u2013 Three sappers have been killed and four wounded while trying to clear mines near the eastern city of Kharkiv, Ukraine\u2019s interior minister Denys Monastyrsky says.<\/p>\n \u2013 Russia says shot down arms shipment \u2013 Russia\u2019s defence ministry claims to have shot down a Ukrainian transport plane carrying weapons supplied by western countries in the Odessa region.<\/p>\n \u2013 No homes to return to: UN \u2013 Many of the nearly five million people who have fled Ukraine will not have homes to return to, the United Nations warns.<\/p>\n UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, says 4 836 445 million Ukrainians have left the country since the Russian invasion on February 24 \u2013 up 40 200 on Friday\u2019s total.<\/p>\n Agence France-Presse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" – Advertisement – Kyiv, Ukraine: Here are the latest developments in the war in Ukraine: \u2013 Civilian evacuation paused \u2013 Ukraine says it is pausing the evacuation of civilians from the war-scarred east of the country for a day because of a failure to agree terms with Russian forces. \u201cAs of this morning, April 17, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1058698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3894],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1058697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1058697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1058697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1058697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1058697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/1650193402_93_db816cc6-cbbe-54d7-aff5-60454c6ab4b0.jpg\")
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