Headline RoundupMarch 8th, 2022

First Safe Corridors for Evacuation Open in Ukraine

Summary from the AllSides News Team

Civilians in Ukraine began evacuating besieged areas along "safe corridors" Tuesday, as the refugee count hit 2 million amid Russia's ongoing attacks.

Russia and Ukraine agreed to a cease-fire Tuesday in the northeastern city of Sumy to allow civilians to evacuate safely, the first such agreement since Russia's invasion began nearly two weeks ago. Efforts to establish cease-fires and humanitarian evacuation routes failed in other places such as the southern city of Mariupol, where Russian missile attacks reportedly resumed as evacuations were starting on Monday. Russia had previously offered to allow civilians to evacuate on designated routes leading to Russia or its close ally Belarus, a proposal that Ukraine rejected. The U.N.'s human rights office said it's recorded more than 400 civilian deaths in Ukraine since the invasion began, and warned that the true number is likely higher. A third round of peace talks between Russia and Ukraine ended Monday with no major developments.

The safe corridors and refugee crisis are a top story across the political spectrum, especially for left- and center-rated sources, with many focused on the plight of fleeing civilians. Some more sensationalist sources, such as Insider (Lean Left) and New York Post (Lean Right), highlighted reports that Russians lined some safe corridors with land mines

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