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Russia-Ukraine War News Live Updates: Over five million people have fled Ukraine since start of war, says UNHRC

Russia-Ukraine War Live Today News, Ukraine Russia Updates, World War 3 News, 20 Apr: The International Atomic Energy Agency says direct phone communications between the decommissioned Chernobyl power plant and Ukraine's nuclear regulator have been restored.

Russia Ukraine War Crisis Live: Based on the data collected by the agency, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Wednesday said that more than five million people have fled Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion, news agency Reuters reported. Meanwhile, UN Secretary-General António Guterres is calling for a four-day halt in fighting in Ukraine, starting Thursday to coincide with Orthodox Christians’ Holy Week observances. Noting that Orthodox Easter is coming amid an intensifying Russian offensive in eastern Ukraine, the U.N. chief said Tuesday that the need for a “humanitarian pause” is all the more urgent.

Russia is assaulting cities and towns across Ukraine’s eastern industrial heartland in what both sides call a new phase of the war after losing about 25% of the combat power it sent into Ukraine, according to Pentagon estimates. Russia gave Ukrainian fighters still holding out in Mariupol a fresh ultimatum to surrender on Wednesday as it pushed for a decisive victory in its new eastern offensive, while Western governments pledged more military help to Kyiv. Thousands of Russian troops backed by artillery and rocket barrages were advancing in what Ukrainian officials have called the Battle of the Donbas.Meanwhile, the International Atomic Energy Agency says direct phone communications between the decommissioned Chernobyl power plant and Ukraine’s nuclear regulator have been restored. Ukraine informed the Vienna-based UN nuclear watchdog on March 10 that it had lost direct contact with the plant, the site of the 1986 disaster. Russian forces seized Chernobyl at the beginning of the invasion on February 24 and withdrew on March 31.