The US embassy in Kyiv has accused Kremlin troops this Tuesday, March 22, of having “kidnapped” 2,389 minors from Donetsk and Lugansk, the self-proclaimed people’s republics in eastern Ukraine, and having transferred them to Russia, according to has indicated in a tweet, in which he quotes the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry.

More than 3.5 million people have fled Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion on February 24, according to a UN tally released on Tuesday, about 90% of whom are women and children.

The High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) counted this March 22, exactly, 3,557,245 Ukrainian refugees.

The Ukrainian government has reported that it has not reached any agreement for the opening of new humanitarian corridors. According to Deputy Prime Minister Irina Vereshchuk, the evacuation is now focused on Mariupol.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has warned in the Italian Parliament that the invasion of Russia is for his president, Vladimir Putin, “the gateway to Europe”.