INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
President Joe Biden accused Vladimir Putin of committing genocide against civilians in Ukraine, as Kyiv halted humanitarian corridors in
Washington warned might involve chemical weapons.In Mariupol, where strikes continued to pummel the battered city, more than 1,000 Ukrainian
soldiers have surrendered, Russia's defence ministry said Wednesday
Ukraine did not confirmed the claim.Following its pullback from areas north of Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, Russia is refocusing its efforts
separatists control the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, to create a solid southern corridor to occupied Crimea.Ukrainian authorities have been
urging people to flee west in advance of the expected Russian offensive but on Wednesday, all humanitarian corridors were halted, Deputy
Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said."The situation along the routes is too dangerous," Vereshchuk said, claiming Russian forces around
Zaporizhzhia in the south were blocking buses transporting the evacuated, while shooting at fleeing civilians in Lugansk.In the past 24
hours, seven civilians were killed by Russian shelling in the northeastern Kharkiv region, said regional governor Oleg Synegubov on social
Bucha and neighboring Kyiv suburbs held by Russian forces that sparked global condemnation."Yes, I called it genocide," said Biden,
become clearer and clearer that Putin is just trying to wipe out the idea of even being able to be a Ukrainian."The International Criminal
have reasonable grounds to believe that crimes within the jurisdiction of the court are being committed
We have to pierce the fog of war to get to the truth," he told reporters.Clean them outThe worst civilian toll is feared to be in Mariupol,
where Zelensky accuses Russia of killing "tens of thousands."On Wednesday, the Ukrainian army said on Telegram that air strikes continued,
Eduard Basurin, a representative for pro-Russian separatists in Donetsk, citing subterranean areas that cannot be bombed from above."You
have to go underground to clean them out, and that will take time."U.S
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he could not confirm allegations that Russia had used chemical weapons in the area, but Washington
had "credible information" Russia might use tear gas mixed with chemical agents in the besieged port.'Devil incarnate'On Wednesday, U.S
private satellite firm Maxar Technologies published images it said showed ground forces moving towards Russia's border with Ukraine on
region, a steady stream of residents sought once again to leave by bus and trainThe city's train station was hit by a missile attack on
Friday that killed 57 people."What is happening is inhuman, (Putin) is a fascist
woman, 44-year-old Nadiya Zhizhunas, bid goodbye to her husband, holding him tightly for several minutes before boarding a train."I have no
idea when we will be together again," Zhizhunas said
"We have to survive first."'No words'In areas recently abandoned by Russian forces, the grim work of accounting for the civilian dead
shot while "handing out bread to the hungry and medicine to the sick" and hastily buried by a local priest.Up to 400 people are unaccounted
for Gostomel, said regional prosecutor Andiy Tkach, as war crimes investigators began a probe
Karpishen said he had never before done such work."But our citizens are murdered and we must bury every person in the right way," said
sexual assault by Russian forces in previously held areas, saying hundreds of cases had been recorded, including of young children and a
an official in the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro said Wednesday that the remains of more than 1,500 Russian soldiers were being kept in
its morgues.Tycoon swapThe presidents of Poland, Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia headed for Kyiv in a show of support Wednesday, a day after
