Invasion of Ukraine LIVE: More than 6,600 people were evacuated through humanitarian corridors in cities under Russian attack

After counting more than fifty deaths, in the attack by Russian troops on the Kramatorsk railway station, the authorities in Ukraine found new mass graves in the town of Bucha.

The bombing of civilians waiting to escape the horror of war was condemned by the UN, which called it “completely unacceptable”

For its part, the Kremlin revoked the registration of 15 foreign human rights organizations, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.

The international community's support for Ukraine is growing. The Russian Government and its relatives within the country continue to be subject to sanctions by the United States, the European Union and other allied countries.

Here is the minute by minute of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine (Ukraine time, GMT +3):

Saturday, April 9

3:30: The authorities of Ukraine reported that on Friday 6,665 civilians were evacuated by humanitarian corridors and assured that eight buses from evacuation were held for 24 hours in the city of Melitopol.

Specifically, 5,158 citizens have used the Mariupol and Berdyansk corridor with their own means of transport to reach the city of Zaporizhzhia, according to Deputy Prime Minister for the Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine, Irina Vereshchuk.

Of this total, 1,614 were civilians from Mariupol and 3,544 from Zaporizhzhia regions such as Pologi, Vasylivka, Berdyansk, Tokmak, Melitopol, Energodar, Orejov, Huliaipole, as stated in a statement from the Ministry of Reintegration.

The Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister also indicated that 1,507 people were evacuated from cities such as Lysychansk, Severodonetsk, Rubizhne, Kreminna and the village of Gorske, according to the said statement.

02:48: The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, said this Friday that he expects a “firm global response” from the first world powers following the Russian attack on the railway station of the Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, in the Donestk region.

“Like the massacre in Bucha, like many other Russian war crimes, the missile attack in Kramatorsk must be one of the charges in (international) courts, which will surely happen,” said the Ukrainian president in his evening speech, according to a presidential statement.

02:10: Russian troops have “forcibly deported” to Russia more than 600,000 Ukrainians, including about 121,000 children, said Ukrainian human rights commissioner Lyudmila Denysova. Denysova also said that residents of the temporarily occupied city of Izyum in the Kharkov region are being forcibly transferred to Russia.

01:30: Zelensky denounced the missile attack on an eastern railway station as another Russian war crime and said that Ukraine expects a harsh global response.

“Like the massacres in Bucha, like many other Russian war crimes, the missile attack in Kramatorsk should be one of the charges in court to be held,” he said during his nightly video address to the nation on Friday.

The president told the Ukrainians that great efforts would be made “to establish every minute who did what, who gave what orders, where the missile came from, who transported it, who gave the order and how this attack was agreed”, so that those behind the attack would be held responsible.

01:19: The Government of Antigua and Barbuda assured this Friday that it has not yet received any official notification from the United Kingdom regarding the two yachts of the sanctioned Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich that are docked on the island.

The assets of Abramovich, owner of Chelsea FC football club, were frozen by the United Kingdom last March as part of the measures against Russia for its invasion of Ukraine.

01:04: The Commissioner for Human Rights of the Parliament of Ukraine, Liudmila Denisova, denounced this Friday that Russian troops raped minors during their occupation of the city of Bucha, near the capital, Kiev.

Denisova has released a post on her Facebook page listing the case of at least two minors, a fourteen-year-old girl and an eleven-year-old boy, who allegedly had been raped by the Russian occupiers.

00:42: The Government of US President Joe Biden on Friday expanded export restrictions to Russia and Belarus, blocking access to products such as fertilizers and pipeline valves, in an attempt to increase pressure on Moscow and Minsk.

In a publication in the federal bulletin on Friday, the Commerce Department said it would start requiring Russians and Belarusians a special license when they want to obtain a number of goods from US suppliers and promised to refuse them.

00:23: The Russian Ministry of Justice has included six more people in its 'black list' of alleged foreign agents, including rapper Ivan Dremin, artistically known as Face, and former lawyer Mark Feigin, defender of the punk group Pussy Riot, known for his activism against the Russian president, Vladimir Putin.

00:10: The European Union (EU) anticipates that the war in Ukraine will change the bloc's trade patterns not only in the coming months and years, but also in the long term, as stated on Friday the executive vice-president and responsible for competition policy of the group, Margrethe Vestager.

In a roundtable discussion with journalists in Washington as part of his visit to the United States these days, Vestager explained that the EU will change and diversify the source of its raw materials, currently too dependent in his opinion on Russia and Ukraine.

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