On Monday, Mariupol’s Mayor Vadym Boichenko called for the city’s remaining residents to “completely evacuate” and added that people there are “beyond the line of a humanitarian catastrophe,” Reuters reports. The mayor estimated that roughly 160,000 of the city’s pre-invasion population of more than 400,000 people remain in Mariupol, per CNN. Ukrainian officials said that they will not open humanitarian corridors on Monday due to intelligence reports of potential Russian “provocations” along routes. Russia has previously denied targeting civilians and blames Ukraine for the repeated failure to agree on safe corridors, the BBC reports. Russian and Ukrainian negotiators are expected to resume face-to-face peace talks in Turkey this week. Content warning: This timeline includes live-updating Tweets which may consist of sensitive images from this developing news story.
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