Russia will open humanitarian corridors this Monday in the Ukrainian cities of Kiev, Mariupol, Kharkov and Sumi, as reported by the Russian armed forces themselves to the Red Cross, the OSCE and the UN. “Given the catastrophic humanitarian situation and its sharp deterioration in the cities of Kiev, Kharkov, Sumi and Mariupol, the Armed Forces for humanitarian purposes from 10:00 a.m. (07:00 GMT) on March 7, 2022 announce a regime of silence and open humanitarian corridors,” the statement said.
The Russian authorities’ announcement came shortly after Putin’s troops launched a missile attack on the town of Tuzla, in Odessa, a coastal city with access to the Black Sea that functions as a key source of resources for Ukraine. “There is information that the enemy launched a missile attack from the sea in the area of the Tuzla settlement. Information about other nearby settlements is being specified,” Sergey Bratchuk, spokesman for the Operations Headquarters of the Odessa Regional Military Administration, reported.
Russia has attacked critical infrastructure facilities and at the moment there is no information on victims. The President of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelensky, warned this Sunday that the Russian Army “was preparing to bomb Odessa” and warned that “it would be a war crime” and “a historical crime.” The Ukrainian Presidential Office further warned that thousands of people must be immediately evacuated from their cities.
“We have already had two agreements on humanitarian corridors from Mariupol and Volnovakha with the Russian side, which have been raped by the Russians. They would have allowed the evacuation of more than 200,000 civilians”, the Department has denounced. In this context, there are already several dozen cities in eight regions of the country in which “the humanitarian situation is catastrophic”. The cities, towns and villages of the Sumy, Chernigov, Khakov, Kiev, Mykolaiv, Zaporizhia, Kherson, Lugansk and Donetsk regions are the ones that need the most access to humanitarian corridors.
Thus, the Presidential Office emphasized that, according to International Humanitarian Law, the intermediaries in the process of coordinating humanitarian corridors can be an independent “third side” that is not a party to the conflict or international humanitarian organizations. On the other hand, he has accused Russia of use the humanitarian corridors as a pretext to strengthen their own military positions and completely conquer Ukraine.
Source: Lasexta
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