Today’s Russia/Ukraine Update

🇺🇦 Ukrainian authorities said Russia bombed an art school housing 400 civilians yesterday in the southwestern city of Mariupol, where fighting has now reached the streets. About 4,000 civilians have been killed since the invasion began, per the city council.

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said hundreds of civilians are still trapped underneath a Mariupol theater that was bombed by Russian forces last week.
• Russian missiles struck the western city of Lviv for the first time on Friday; the city is about 50 miles from the Polish border.
• At least 10 million Ukrainians have fled their homes, according to the UN. That’s nearly a quarter of Ukraine’s total population.
• Russia’s military said it used a new hypersonic missile over the weekend for the first time in combat, though the US couldn’t independently verify the claim; these weapons can carry a nuclear warhead and are designed to fly low and evade detection.
• A US official described reports that Russian President Vladimir Putin placed the military commander responsible for Ukraine under house arrest as “credible,” per the WSJ; the director of the CIA told Congress this month that Putin had planned to seize Ukraine’s capital in just two days.

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