Ukraine “of course” rejected a Russian ultimatum for tradition of Mariupol and the situation in the besieged city in southern Ukraine is “very difficult”, said today Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Irina Verestsuk.
Russia has proposed opening humanitarian corridors from the city from 10 a.m. Moscow time (9 a.m. Greek time) if the city surrenders its weapons.
“Of course we rejected these proposals,” Verestsuk said, adding that “the situation there is very difficult.”
“There is no question of talking about surrender or laying down arms. We have already informed the Russian side,” she said in a statement to the Ukrayinskaya Pravda newspaper. “This is deliberate manipulation and the actual taking of hostages,” he added.
Earlier, Verestsuk noted that an agreement had been reached on the creation today 8 humanitarian corridors to evacuate civilians from cities besieged by Russian forces in Ukraine, noting, however, that Mariupol is not among them and that efforts to get humanitarian supplies there are still failing.
Verestsuk also said in a statement to Ukrayinskaya Pravda that priority should be given to a humanitarian corridor to allow civilians who are still trapped in Mariupol –it is estimated to be approximately 350,000 people are in town– to leave.
8 dead from the bombing of a shopping center in Kyiv
Meanwhile, Russian forces are continuing their efforts to encircle Kyivwhere at least 8 people were killed from the bombing shopping center during the night spent, according to the attorney general.
Bodies of victims were still lying This morning in front of the Retroville shopping center in northwestern Kyiv, according to an AFP reporter, firefighters and soldiers were searching the wreckage for victims.
The very strong blow destroyed vehicles and left in the parking lot of the shopping center a crater several meters wide in front of the ten-storey building from which smoke is still coming out.
“Enemy fire” caused fires on several floors of the shopping center in the Podilsky district, according to a clarification given earlier by the Ukrainian rescue teams in a post on Facebook.
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