Good morning and welcome to way too early on this Tuesday, March 8th. I'm Jonathan Lemire.

Let's get right to the overnight developments from Eastern Europe. Ukraine announced this morning

that Russia reached an agreement with the Red Cross to open a humanitarian corridor from the besieged

northeastern city of Sumi. According to the Ukrainian officials, it will take

civilians on an indirect route to the central Ukrainian city of Boltova. Russia proposed five corridors,

but so far Ukraine has only agreed to that one route from Sumi, where Russia attacked residential

areas yesterday, including apartment

buildings. 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 that Ukraine has information that Russia is preparing to violate the ceasefire

agreement yet 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. Meanwhile,

violence continues across Ukraine as Russian forces

intensified attacks, pummeling cities and residential areas with missiles and rockets. Russian

air strikes set fire to two oil depots yesterday in the northern part of the country. No one

was hurt, but Ukraine officials say they battled the massive

blaze for hours. Meanwhile, areas in and around Kiev came under heavy fire as Russian forces

renewed their push toward the capital, still facing stiff resistance from Ukraine's military

and civilians. This, as the Kremlin released video of Russian

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