Russian airstrikes bring war close to NATO’s border as Greece calls for more humanitarian corridors

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Russian missiles hit a large Ukrainian base near the border with NATO member Poland on Sunday, killing 35 people and wounding 134, a Ukrainian official said.

An American journalist and filmmaker was also shot and killed on Sunday – the first Western journalist confirmed dead in the conflict.

These latest attacks come as Ukraine reported renewed air strikes on an airport in the west, heavy shelling on Chernihiv north-east of the capital and attacks on the southern town of Mykolayiv.

READ MORE: Why Putin lost the war in Ukraine.

Authorities in Ukraine’s capital Kyiv are also stockpiling two weeks’ worth of essential food items for the two million people who have not yet fled as Russian forces encircle the city.

Elsewhere, the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol has endured some of Ukraine’s worst punishment since Russia invaded.

Unceasing Russian attacks have thwarted repeated attempts to bring food, water and medicine into the city of 430,000 and to evacuate its trapped civilians.

READ MORE: EU leaders meet in Versailles to discuss Ukraine war and energy independence.

Satellite imagery of the hospital area in Mariupol. Credit: Satellite image ©2022 Maxar Technologies.

More than 1,500 people have died in Mariupol during the siege, according to the mayor’s office, and the shelling has even interrupted efforts to bury the dead in mass graves.

READ MORE: Russian attack destroys maternity hospital in Mariupol as Greece ramps up evacuations.

There is a strong Greek presence in Mariupol and the Greek Consul General Manolis Androulakis is still in the area, Greek officials have confirmed.

This has led the Greek Foreign Ministry to call for the creation of more humanitarian corridors from cities in Ukraine “in order to ensure the supply of the civilian population, as well as the possibility of their escape to safer areas.”

READ MORE: ‘People are scared’: Ukraine’s Greek communities in agony as war rages on.

“We call on everyone to respect humanitarian law and to avoid targeting the civilian population,” the Ministry said in a statement. 

So far, Greece has repatriated nearly 200 of its own nationals from Kyiv, Mariupol and Odessa. Over 4,600 refugees from Ukraine have also reached Greece since the Russian invasion, including over 1,400 children.

READ MORE: ‘Terrified of the war’: Expatriates, refugees reach Greece after escaping Ukraine.

Source: ABC News.

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