Russia and Ukraine agreed on Wednesday to respect a ceasefire that allow the evacuation of civilians from several areas devastated by bombingwhile increasing international sanctions against Moscow, which has accused the United States of waging “an economic war.”
After 14 days of invasion, in which there have already been hundreds of deaths and two million exiles, the spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zajárova, admitted “progress” in the negotiations to “end as soon as possible the senseless bloodbath and the resistance of the Ukrainian forces.”
The two countries agreed on Wednesday to open humanitarian corridors between 9:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. local time (07:00-19:00 GMT) in several areas of Ukraine that have been the target of bombing and artillery fire in recent days, said Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk.
These corridors will go from Energodar to Zaporizhia (south), from Izium to Lozova (east) and from Sumy to Polatava (northeast). Routes to Kiev will also be opened from the punished areas located to the northwest of the capital such as Bucha, Irpin or Gostomel.
Previous attempts to shelter civilians trapped by Heavy fighting was frustrated or disrupted by violations of agreed ceasefires.
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On Tuesday night, the Russian Defense Ministry had also announced humanitarian corridors in the beleaguered port of Mariupol, in Kharkov and in Chernigov, although it did not detail where they were headed or whether they had been accepted by the Ukrainian side.
On Tuesday, Some 5,000 people, mostly women, children and the elderly, have already been evacuated in sixty buses from Sumy, northeast of Kiev and near the Russian borderKyrylo Tymoshenko, an official at the Ukrainian presidential office, told local media.
On Tuesday night, several cities suffered Russian attacks. In Severodonetsk, in the east, 10 people were killed in shelling, according to the head of the Lugansk administrative region. And in Yitomir, west of Kiev, nine were killed by aerial bombardment.
In the same capital, alarm sirens were activated four times during the night.
And the exodus of Ukrainians to neighboring countries continues. The head of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Filippo Grandi, estimated it between “2.1 million and 2.2 million people.” “Poland alone receives 150,000 a day,” he stated. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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