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The Ukrainian government warns that the situation in Mariupol is critical

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The situation in Mariupol is critical, the Ukrainian Interior Ministry warned on Friday, stressing that it is not certain whether aid will be able to reach the besieged city.

Vadim Denishenko, An interior ministry adviser said it was unclear whether eight trucks carrying humanitarian aid would be able to reach the southern port today, Reuters reported.

Meanwhile, the Ukrainian embassy in Ankara said 86 Turkish citizens – including 34 children – had taken refuge in a mosque in the besieged city amid ongoing Russian bombing. The embassy said Russian forces had been bombing the city, including the mosque, since the early hours of the morning.

The Russian military has launched a high-precision, long-range attack on two military air bases in the Ukrainian cities of Lutsk and Ivano-Frankivsk, rendering them non-operational, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said this morning.

He noted that since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine Russian forces have destroyed more than 3,210 military infrastructure and equipment of Ukraine.

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