Good morning and welcome to morning, Joe.

It is Tuesday, March 8th.

Let's get right to the overnight developments from Eastern Europe, Ukraine.

Announced this morning, Russia reached an agreement with the Red Cross to open a humanitarian corridor from the besieged

northeastern city of Sumi.

According to Ukrainian officials, it will take civilians on an indirect route to the central

Ukrainian city of Poltava.

Russia proposed five corridors, but so far Ukraine has only agreed to the route from Sumi, where

Russia attacked residential areas, yesterday including apartment buildings, where two children

were among the nine people killed.

Ukraine's Ministry of Foreign Affairs posted this video just moments ago of foreign students

loading up on buses.

More than a thousand students were trapped in the city, surrounded by gunfire and shelling,

and were beginning to run out of food and water.

Ukraine's deputy prime minister says a military convoy will lead the civilians along the route to safety.

The Deputy Prime Minister also said Ukraine has information that Russia is preparing to violate

the ceasefire agreement again.

Efforts to evacuate civilians in two southeastern Ukrainian cities were halted this past

Saturday after Ukraine said Russia kept firing

despite a ceasefire agreement. Willie?

All this as violence continues across Ukraine as Russian forces intensify their attacks,

pummeling cities and residential areas with missiles and rockets.

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