The Kremlin has threatened that Russia will use nuclear weapons if its existence is threatened. A Kremlin spokesman issued the warning on Wednesday. Meanwhile, millions of people in the besieged town of Mariupol are in dire need of food and water. Ukraine has accused Russia of attacking a city in Donetsk with phosphorus weapons.
Mariopol residents trapped in humanitarian crisis. Millions of people are living in food and water crisis. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said, Food and medicine are also running out in Kherson.
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has said Russia is constantly bombing Mariupol. State Emergency Services staff and bus drivers have been detained near Mangush. We are making every effort to liberate our citizens and to facilitate the movement of those carrying humanitarian aid. But they are ruining all our efforts.
The U.S. embassy in Kiev says Russian troops have abducted more than 2,000 Ukrainian children in Luhansk and Donetsk. Russia has been accused of carrying out a phosphorus attack on the Donetsk city of Kramatorsk.
Meanwhile, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov responded to warnings from the US president and Western leaders about the use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine. In an interview with CNN on Tuesday, he said, Russia will use nuclear weapons if its existence is threatened.
A spokesman for the Kremlin said that "whatever obstacles stand in our way, Russia will be a threat to the people, and Moscow will respond, no matter who it is."
US President Joe Biden is visiting Europe to meet with NATO allies over the situation in Ukraine. The conference is expected to see further sanctions on Russian lawmakers. In addition, the President of Ukraine will give a virtual speech at the NATO summit on Thursday.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian military commanders have claimed that Russian troops fighting in Ukraine have run out of supplies. They claim that they have food, fuel and weapons to fight in just three days. A senior Pentagon staffer who assisted in compiling the report said that Russia's military capabilities had dropped by 90 percent since the operation began.
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