A new attempt to evacuate civilians from Ukrainian port of Mariupolwhich was surrounded and has almost been completely under Russian control, to the city of Zaporizhia failed, wrote today a deputy mayor of Mariupol to his Telegram account.
According to Petro Andriuchenko, about 200 residents of this industrial port in the Sea of ​​Azov had begun to gather in order to leave the area, when this crowd “Disbanded” by the Russian army.
Then, according to the same source, some were forced to board buses bound for a Russian-occupied community, 80 kilometers to the north.
“The world he had no right to leave the bus“, Said the deputy mayor, explaining that the Russians spoke” of fire from the nationalists (Ukrainians) at the point of evacuation “, in order to justify the change in the route.
“Once again the Russians disrupted an evacuation,” the deputy mayor wrote.
This morning, Ukrainian authorities announced that they would try again to evacuate civilians from Mariupol, to Zaporizhia, about 200 kilometers northwest.
Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Irina Verestsuk had warned that Russian forces wanted to organize another evacuation corridor, this time to Russia. “Be careful,” he said. “Do not succumb to deception and provocation.”
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