THE Turkey called her Russia to help to remove its citizens who have trapped in the siege Mariupolin Ukraineannounced today the country’s Foreign Minister Mevlüt Tsavousogluwithout confirming whether the city mosque was hit by Russian bombing.
“We called yesterday (to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov) and asked for his help in evacuating our citizens,” he said.
The Ukrainian authorities complained yesterday that the mosque of Mariupolwhere they had found refuge about 80 civilians, among them dozens of Turks, targeted from the Russian forceswhich have surrounded the city.
This is first official reaction of Turkish government after this announcement.
Tsavousoglou stated that “the imam of the mosque did not confirm the bombing” of the building. A member of the city’s Turkish community also denied yesterday that the mosque had been hit by the Russian army.
“He said rockets and rockets hit the area,” the Turkish foreign minister said, acknowledging that “contact” with the community had been “lost” due to the “collapse of infrastructure”.
“We have shared this information with Russia,” he added.
“We sent a bus to the area, but it could not enter the city,” he added.
This is the first time that the Turkish government has confirmed the presence of its citizens in this mosque, without specifying their number.
“We support Ukraine’s territorial integrity, but we must work with both sides for humanitarian purposes,” he said. Tsavousoglou.
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