Ukraine has said it plans to open up to 10 humanitarian corridors today to evacuate civilians, but Mariupol residents who want to leave the besieged port city in the south of the country will have to use private vehicles.
The 10 planned safe corridors, announced by Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Irina Verestsuk, are all located in southern and eastern Ukraine.
Ukrainian officials say that the Russian forces are regrouping for a new attack and that Moscow plans to occupy as much territory as possible in the eastern part of Ukraine known as Donbass, which borders Russia.
Verestsuk also said 4,676 civilians were evacuated from the country’s cities on Thursday.
Many attempts to reach an agreement on the safe passage of buses carrying supplies to Mariupol to evacuate civilians have failed since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, with both sides blaming each other.
According to the mayor of the strategically important city in the Sea of ​​Azov Vadim Boitshenko, the number of civilians who lost their lives there was about 5,000 a week ago, while tens of thousands are still trapped in it without electricity and with few supplies.
At the same time, the governor of Luhansk, in eastern Ukraine, stated today that Russia is mobilizing forces in the eastern part of the country, but has not managed to break the Ukrainian defense.
At the same time on the diplomatic front, Ukrainian negotiator Mikhail Pontolyak said on television today that Ukraine and Russia were “continuously” conducting online peace talks, but that the climate had been affected by the events, including the deaths of civilians. .
Ukrainian officials have accused Russian forces of carrying out extrajudicial killings in Bhutan, outside Kyiv. Moscow denies targeting civilians in Ukraine and has described the Bhutanese deaths as “monstrous forgery” directed by the West to discredit it.
Animal Husbandry in Borodyanka-Russian Ring in the East and South
The Ukrainian authorities try to evacuate civilians from the regions in eastern part of the countrythreatened with an imminent large-scale attack by the Russian army, while the president Volodymyr Zelensky announced that the disasters in Borodianka is even worse from those recently found in suburbs of the capital recaptured after the withdrawal of Russian troops.
As Russia multiplies the blows in the south and in the eastern part of the countryKyiv – where European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is expected today and EU foreign policy chief Joseph Borrell – notes the real extent of the damage in areas where Moscow.
The Ukrainian president Zelensky said the disasters in Borodyanka are worse than those in Boukawhere images of civilian corpses on the streets caused an international outcry.
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