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Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) - Kyiv said Thursday it was sending dozens of buses to evacuate civilians from the besieged city of Mariupol after a Russian ceasefire announcement, as the international Red Cross said it was ready to lead the "desperately important" operation.

David Cohen and Lucy Young report from Csengersima on the Romanian-Hungarian border

David Cohen travelled to Csengersima on the Romanian-Hungarian border to help with the Red Cross’s relief effort for the Ukrainian refugees fleeing civilian bombings

David Cohen reports from the Romanian-Hungarian border where Ukrainian refugees are being met by a smiling Peter Turi and his team

Justice Minister Helen McEntee has said the use of tents will be “a last option,” but senior Government figures have said there is no real alternative if up to 30,000 refugees arrive into Ireland in the coming weeks

Fr Paul Byrne is one of a growing number of priests in the diocese who have registered with the Red Cross to offer his spare room

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Ukraine is willing to become neutral and compromise over the status of the eastern Donbas region as part of a peace deal, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday, after a Ukrainian negotiator said the next round of face-to-face talks with Russia would be held in Turkey on March 28-30. Read…

Ukraine has asked the International Committee of the Red Cross not to open a planned office in Russia's Rostov-on-Don, saying it would legitimise Moscow's "humanitarian corridors" and the abduction and forced deportation of Ukranians.