“We are at a crossroads”he stated today Adviser to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky on the war in Ukraine, clarifying that either an agreement will be reached in talks with Russia or new russian attack.
“We are at a crossroads. Either we agree on the current ones conversations “Either the Russians make a second attempt (attack) and then there will be talks again,” Oleksy Arestovich said today.
Ukraine hopes to open up 9 humanitarian corridors to evacuate civilians trapped in cities besieged by Russian forces and to try to deliver humanitarian supplies to Mariupolthe port city in southeastern Ukraine, which is surrounded by Russian forces, said today, Deputy Prime Minister Irina Verestsuk.
The Sumi regional governor, in eastern Ukraine, said the evacuation of civilians was already under way in its territory.
Verestsuk made the announcement at a time when the governor of the Rivne region in northern Ukraine was announcing that death toll from a Russian airstrike yesterday, Monday, on a television tower in its periphery increased to at least 19.
Moscow announced yesterday that it allowed the first convoy of civilians to leave Mariupol, but a senior adviser to the Ukrainian presidency said Russia had again blocked a convoy carrying humanitarian aid trying to reach the city on supplies.
The guarantee of a safe passage for aid to reach Mariupol and for civilians to be able to leave the city has been basic request of Kiev in various rounds of talks with Moscow. Previous attempts to achieve a local ceasefire have failed.
Verestsuk noted that convoys with humanitarian supplies will be headed to Mariupol today.
“On his return he will receive women and children,” Verestsuk added.
Civilians trapped by Russian bombardment in the city for more than two weeks do not have the most heating, electricity and running water, according to Ukrainian authorities.
A convoy of at least 160 cars left the city yesterday, according to local officials, where, as a Ukrainian official said yesterday, more than 2,500 residents have been killed since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began on February 24.
Meanwhile the governor of the southern region Nikolaev He said there was more calm today in the security situation in the region because Russian forces had been pushed slightly away from the regional capital, which they were trying to seize.
In an interview with the national television network, Governor Vitaly Kim noted that Russian forces were still firing on Nikolaev and that 80 people were injured yesterday there, including 2 children.
“You can be 99% sure that the Nikolaev region will continue to hold back the advance of Russian troops. “There is the Buk River, which they need to cross in order to advance,” he said. “We will not hand over the bridges to the invaders,” he said.
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