Ukraine will try to evacuate civilians from six besieged cities, including the port of Mariupol, along safe routes agreed with Moscow, the country’s deputy prime minister has said. Ukrainian authorities said the routes should allow civilians from heavily bombed Mariupol, Enerhodar, Sumy, Izyum and Volnovakha to leave, and residents of several towns around Kyiv, including Bucha, Irpin and Hostomel, to get to the capital. The Red Cross has described conditions in Mariupol as 'apocalyptic', while Ukraine’s president, Volodomyr Zelenskiy, compared levels of devastation and suffering to those caused by the Nazis in the second world war.

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People have been living in dire conditions for days, with access to water and electricity cut off. People have been melting snow for water and looting shops in search of food 

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