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A8 The BulleTin • Sunday, March 13, 2022 Russia strikes near Ukrainian capital BY MSTYSLAV CHERNOV AND YURAS KARMANAU associated Press MARIUPOL, Ukraine — Russian forces pounded the Ukrainian port city of Mari- upol on Saturday, shelling its downtown as residents hid in an iconic mosque and else- where to avoid the explosions. Fighting also raged in the out- skirts of the capital, Kyiv, as Russia kept up its bombard- ment of other cities throughout the country. Mariupol has endured some of Ukraine’s worst punishment since Russia invaded. Unceas- ing barrages have thwarted re- peated attempts to bring food, water and medicine into the city of 430,000 and to evacu- ate its trapped civilians. More than 1,500 people have died in Mariupol during the siege, ac- cording to the mayor’s office, and the shelling has even inter- rupted efforts to bury the dead in mass graves. Talks aimed at reaching a cease-fire again failed Saturday, and Russian President Vladi- mir Putin threatened to seize the assets of Western compa- nies that plan to leave Russia over the invasion. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelen- skyy accused Russia of em- ploying “a new stage of terror” with the alleged detention of a mayor from a city west of Mar- iupol. Outside Mariupol, Russian soldiers pillaged a humanitar- ian convoy that was trying to reach the city and blocked an- other, a Ukrainian official said. Ukraine’s military said Rus- sian forces captured Mariupol’s eastern outskirts, tightening their siege of the strategic port. Taking Mariupol and other ports on the Azov Sea could allow Russia to establish a land corridor to Crimea, which it seized from Ukraine in 2014. “They are bombing it (Mar- iupol) 24 hours a day, launch- ing missiles. It is hatred. They kill children,” Ukrainian Presi- dent Volodymyr Zelenskyy said during a video address. Satellite images released Saturday by the company Maxar showed fires in parts of the city and extensive damage to apartments, homes and other infrastructure. An Associated Press jour- nalist in Mariupol witnessed tanks firing on a nine-story apartment building and was with a group of hospital work- ers who came under sniper fire on Friday. A worker shot in the hip survived, but conditions in the hospital were deteriorating: Electricity was reserved for op- erating tables, and people with nowhere else to go lined the hallways. Among them was Anasta- siya Erashova, who wept and trembled as she held a sleeping child. Shelling had just killed her other child as well as her brother’s child, Erashova said, her scalp crusted with blood. “No one was able to save them,” she said. In Irpin, a suburb about 12 miles northwest of central Kyiv, bodies lay out in the open Sat- urday on streets and in a park. “When I woke up in the morning, everything was cov- ered in smoke, everything was dark. We don’t know who is shooting and where,” resident Serhy Protsenko said as he walked through his neighbor- hood. Explosions sounded in the distance. “We don’t have any radio or information.” Some Irpin residents shel- tered in a pitch-dark basement, unsure where they could go or how they would get food if they left. Others toted luggage over planks laid across a water- way where a bridge had been damaged. Zelenskyy encouraged his evgeniy Maloletka/aP Seen through a broken window, a fire burns Friday night in an apartment building after the shelling of a res- idential district in Mariupol, Ukraine. people to keep up their resis- tance, which many analysts said has prevented the rapid military victory the Kremlin likely expected. “The fact that the whole Ukrainian people resist these invaders has already gone down in history, but we do not have the right to let up our de- fense, no matter how difficult it may be,” he said. Later Sat- urday, Zelenskyy reported that 1,300 Ukrainian soldiers had died since the Russian invasion began Feb. 24. $200M in aid Zelenskyy again deplored NATO’s refusal to declare a no-fly zone over Ukraine and said Ukraine has sought ways to procure air defense assets, though he didn’t elaborate. U.S. President Joe Biden an- nounced another $200 million in aid to Ukraine, with an ad- ditional $13 billion included in a bill that has passed the House and should pass the Senate within days. NATO has said that imposing a no-fly zone could lead to a wider war with Russia. The Ukrainian president also accused Russia of detain- ing the mayor of Melitopol, a city 119 miles west of Mar- iupol. The Ukrainian leader called on Russian forces to heed calls from demonstra- tors in the occupied city for the mayor’s release. In multiple areas around Kyiv, artillery barrages sent res- idents scurrying for shelter as air raid sirens wailed. Britain’s Defense Ministry said Russian forces that had been massed north of the capital had edged to within 15 miles of the city center and spread out, likely to support an attempted encircle- ment. Ukraine’s defense ministry said Saturday that seven peo- ple in a convoy of people flee- ing from Peremoha, about 12 miles northeast of Kyiv, were killed when Russian forces fired on the group. Ukraine’s military and vol- unteer forces have been pre- paring for an all-out assault on the capital. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said Thursday that about 2 million people, half the metropolitan area’s inhab- itants, had left and that “every street, every house … is being fortified.” Leaders speak with Putin Zelenskyy said Saturday that Russia would need to car- pet-bomb Kyiv and kill its resi- dents to take the city. “They will come here only if they kill us all,” he said. “If that is their goal, let them come.” French and German lead- ers spoke Saturday with Rus- sian President Vladimir Putin in a failed attempt to reach a cease-fire. According to the Kremlin, Putin laid out terms for ending the war. For ending hostilities, Moscow has de- manded that Ukraine drop its bid to join NATO and adopt a neutral status; acknowledge the Russian sovereignty over Crimea, which it annexed from Ukraine in 2014; recognize the independence of separatist re- gions in the country’s east; and agree to demilitarize. In a 90-minute call with French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chan- cellor Olaf Scholz on Saturday, Putin spoke about “issues re- lated to agreements under dis- cussion to implement the Rus- sian demands” for ending the war, the Kremlin said without providing details. Zelenskyy told Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Saturday that he would be open to meeting Putin in Jeru- salem to discuss an end to the war, but that there would first have to be a cease-fire. Bennett recently met in Moscow with Putin, who has ignored pre- vious offers of talks from Zel- enskyy. In Mariupol, the Ukrainian government said Saturday that the Sultan Suleiman Mosque in Mariupol was hit, but an unverified Instagram post by a man claiming to be the mosque association’s president said the building was spared when a bomb fell about 750 yards away. The Ukrainian Embassy in Turkey said 86 Turkish nation- als, including 34 children, were among the people who had sought safety in the mosque, which was modeled on one of the most famous and largest mosques in Istanbul. With the port’s electricity, gas and water supplies knocked out, aid workers and Ukrainian authorities described an un- folding humanitarian catastro- phe. Aid group Doctors With- out Borders said Mariupol residents are dying from a lack of medication and are drain- ing heating pipes for drinking water. Russian forces have hit at least two dozen hospitals and medical facilities, according to the World Health Organi- zation. The Russian invaders appear to have struggled far more than expected against determined Ukrainian fighters. Still, Russia’s stronger military threatens to grind down Ukrainian forces, despite an ongoing flow of weapons and other assistance from the West for Ukraine’s westward-looking, democrati- cally elected government. A senior Russian diplomat warned that Moscow could at- tack foreign shipments of mil- itary equipment to Ukraine. Speaking Saturday, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryab- kov said Moscow has warned the United States “that pump- ing weapons from a number of countries it orchestrates isn’t just a dangerous move — it’s an “They will come here only if they kill us all. If that is their goal, let them come.” — Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukrainian president action that makes those con- voys legitimate targets.” Thousands of soldiers on both sides are believed to have been killed along with many civilians, including at least 79 Ukrainian children, its govern- ment says. At least 2.5 million people have fled the country, according to the United Na- tions refugee agency. One is Elena Yurchuk, a nurse from the northern city of Chernihiv, which has been heavily shelled. 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