Ukraine has opened a humanitarian corridor to evacuate the civilian population of Sumy, in the northeast of the country, after suffering several bombardments this morning on buildings and civilian houses which has resulted in the death of at least 21 people, including several children. “It has been completely wiped off the face of the earth. These are private houses. Unfortunately, there are victims. Among them there are children,” said the head of the Sumy regional state administration, Dimitro Zhivitskii.
The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for the Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories, Iryna Vereshchuk, has reported that a ceasefire has been agreed with Russia on the way between Sumy, Golubivka, Lojvitsa, Lubny and Poltava. The humanitarian corridor has opened at 09:00 local time, and will close at 21:00.
Advisor to the Office of the Ukrainian President Mykhailo Podolyak has reported that the Sumy corridor will also be used in the opposite direction to stop the passage of humanitarian aid: “We believe that ‘the authors of the corridors to evacuate Ukrainians to a country (Russia) where no one wants to go’ will not close the door and no one will get hurt,” he reiterated.
The Ukrainian authorities have stressed that is the only route that has managed to open after accusing Russia of not having respected the ceasefire agreement in these humanitarian corridors, despite the fact that the Russian Government has assured that it will create humanitarian corridors to allow the evacuation of civilians in Kiev, Chernigov, Kharkiv, Mariupol.
Advisor to the Office of the President does not rate these routes as safesince the Kremlin’s intention with them is evacuate civilians to Russiaa fact that the Ukrainian authorities brand as “unacceptable”: “Now the Russians say they can open the corridors, but they want the civilians to go to Russian territory, which is absurd, cynical and unacceptable.”
In addition, Ukraine has assured that there have already been three evacuations through humanitarian corridors frustrated by the breach of the ceasefire. Irpin, in the vicinity of Kiev, is one of the examples. The bodies of people who had tried to flee after being called by the authorities to do so, lay in the streets. The lifeless bodies of an entire family of four they were the image of the pain of a war that is already lived in the neighborhoods.
In that same city, Russian troops have bombed a civilian bus with several children inside. Chilean journalist Jorge Said was able to spread the images of the moment, in which Ukrainian soldiers can be seen trying to protect minors.
International Red Cross also noted the failure to carry out a second attempt to evacuate civilians from the besieged city of Mariupol, in the south of the country. According to the NGO, when trying to leave the city they found that the corridor that had been indicated to them “was mined”.
According to UNHCR, It is expected that throughout this Tuesday the two million Ukrainian refugees will be exceeded. The massacre of civilians already adds up to thousands of deaths. In the last few hours, the Ukrainian authorities have also confirmed that at least 13 people have died in the aerial bombardment from a bakery in Makariv, west of Kiev. Although the establishment was not in operation, it is feared that the death toll could increase, given that about 30 people were at the scene.
Meanwhile, the offensive in Kiev is still active. The journalist Alberto Sicilia reported this Monday night that the bombings were already heard from the capital. This same Monday, the mayor of Kiev, Vitaly Klitschko, acknowledged that the “fierce” clashes between Russian and Ukrainian forces continued to take place in the vicinity of Kiev, while warning that Putin’s troops “kill on purpose to civilians.”
The Kremlin is not willing to stop the war. In the latest negotiations, which took place last Monday at noon, Russia only agreed to stop its offensive if Kiev renounces joining NATO, recognizes Crimea as Russian territory and recognizes the independence of Donbas.
An extreme that refuses to accept the Ukrainian president, VolodÃmir Zelenski. Tonight he posted a new video from his own office assuring that “he fears no one” and refusing to give up. “It is another ultimatum and we are not prepared for ultimatums,” Zelensky insisted in an interview on the US network ABC: “What Putin must do is start the dialogue instead of living in an information bubble without oxygen.”
Source: Lasexta
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