White House plans Russian oil ban

The Ukrainian government on Tuesday accused Russian forces of shelling a humanitarian corridor it had promised to open to let residents flee

The Ukrainian government on Tuesday accused Russian forces of shelling a humanitarian corridor it had promised to open to let residents flee the besieged port of Mariupol as the civilian death toll in the conflict mounted.

Qazet.az informs that U.S. President Joe Biden was expected to announce a ban on Russian oil later on Tuesday, a significant step in Western powers' response to the Russian invasion.

With the war in its 13th day, the number of refugees who have fled Ukraine has surged past 2 million in what the United Nations describes as one of the fastest exoduses in modern times.

In Mariupol, hundreds of thousands of people have been sheltering under bombardment without water or power for more than a week.

"Ceasefire violated! Russian forces are now shelling the humanitarian corridor from Zaporizhzhia to Mariupol," Ukraine's foreign ministry spokesperson Oleg Nikolenko wrote on Twitter.

Thirty buses had been sent for evacuations.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said a child had died of dehydration in Mariupol because water was cut off. The claim could not be independently verified.

Russia opened a separate corridor allowing residents out of the eastern city of Sumy on Tuesday, the first successful evacuation under such a safe route.