The numbers are staggering. According to the United Nations – about 3.5 million people have fled the country since the start of the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

10 million have been displaced — with little to no reported progress in negotiations between the two sides. And in the besieged city of Mariupol, many of its 400-thousand residents remain trapped with little food, water and power. Ciaran McQuillan has more in this report.

To discuss: 

• Olena Gnes is a Ukrainian tour guide and video blogger. She joined from Kyiv where she’s sheltering with her three young children.
• Einar Tangen is a political and economic affairs commentator.
• Bohdan Nahaylo is chief editor of the Kyiv Post. 
• Aaron Mate hosts “Pushback with Aaron Mate” on The Grayzone.

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In the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, Russian shelling devastated a shopping center near the city center, killing at least eight people and leaving a sea of rubble amid scarred high-rises. https://t.co/Tdm2Kiihwd

— The Associated Press (@AP) March 21, 2022

 

Ukrainian officials have defiantly rejected a Russian demand that their forces in Mariupol surrender, lay down arms and raise white flags in exchange for safe passage. Russian troops have surrounded and are barraging the strategic southern port city. https://t.co/f8Mbftr8NJ

— The Associated Press (@AP) March 21, 2022