Good morning. We're covering the death toll of a major earthquake in Turkey, and Russia's push on Ukraine's eastern front. |
 | | A search and rescue operation in Adana, Turkey, on Tuesday morning.Sergey Ponomarev for The New York Times |
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Over 4,300 killed by 7.8-magnitude earthquake |
A powerful earthquake that hit at 4:17 a.m. yesterday close to the border of Turkey and Syria has wrought devastation, killed more than 4,300 people and raised the specter of a new humanitarian disaster in an already troubled area of the world. Rescuers are searching for survivors in near-freezing temperatures and are facing what one expert called "a race against time and hypothermia." Follow the latest updates. |
The initial earthquake, centered near Gaziantep, was as strong as a quake that hit in 1939, the most powerful ever recorded in Turkey. A second major temblor, measuring 7.5 in magnitude, hit hours later. Earthquakes occur frequently in Turkey, which sits on fault lines, and recent quakes in the region have caused deadly landslides. |
The W.H.O. warned the death toll could increase substantially, with as much as an "eightfold increase" on the initial numbers, Catherine Smallwood, the organization's senior emergency officer for Europe, said. |
Toll: In Turkey, at least 2,379 people were killed, according to the state-run Anadolu news agency, in addition to at least 13,293 injured, and more than 5,600 buildings were destroyed, the government said. |
 | | Collapsed buildings in Besnia, a village in northwest Syria.Omar Haj Kadour/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images |
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'An emergency within an emergency' in Syria |
More than 1,450 people died in Syria in the earthquake yesterday, with untold devastation taking place in a matter of seconds. Though emergency crews across the area responded quickly, digging in the freezing cold and the rain, the scale of the destruction was too great even for rescuers accustomed to combing through collapsed buildings. |
The earthquake wiped out entire neighborhoods across northwestern Syria, in scenes that were all too familiar to a region devastated by more than a decade of civil war. The war's toll — widespread destruction, an acute economic crisis, a collapsing currency — will make responding to the quake even more difficult for all sides. |
In the years before the quake, millions of people displaced by the fighting fled to the north, the only place that remains outside government control. They sheltered in tents and ruins, and most struggled to find work, health care and food amid an economic collapse precipitated by the war. |
Analysis: Mark Kaye, a spokesman for the International Rescue Committee, called for more aid to be sent to Syria in the earthquake's aftermath. "Anywhere else in the world, this would be an emergency," he said. "What we have in Syria is an emergency within an emergency." |
 | | Siblings hugged as one prepared to evacuate from a village in eastern Ukraine.Lynsey Addario for The New York Times |
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Ukraine reports dozens of Russian attacks |
Russian forces fired on some two dozen towns and villages around the ruined eastern city of Bakhmut, the Ukrainian military said, as Moscow's assaults intensified ahead of what Kyiv has warned could be the Kremlin's largest offensive since the first weeks of the war. |
Moscow is waging a campaign to seize all of the eastern area known as the Donbas. Ukrainian military officials said that the chaotic nature of the Russian effort, which included waves of inexperienced recruits and former convicts belonging to the Wagner paramilitary group, was limiting its effectiveness. |
Russia is deploying hundreds of thousands of newly mobilized soldiers, in small groups, to probe for vulnerabilities in Ukrainian defensive lines. That has forced Ukraine to stretch its forces to meet the threat. But while the fighting has been brutal, neither side has achieved any significant territorial gains in months. |
Plans: Ukraine's defense minister, Oleksii Reznikov, said that Moscow was determined to break through Ukrainian defensive lines before the anniversary of Russia's invasion, on Feb. 24. |
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That's it for today's briefing. Have a great day. — Natasha |
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