Kiev has called for a 24-hour ceasefire and the establishment of a human corridor in Mariupol. However, the meeting between the foreign ministers of Ukraine and Russia has ended without an agreement.
The port city of Mariupol, besieged by Russian troops, is one of the cities that has suffered the most attacks and siege by Russian troops since the war began. In the last hours at least three people have died, among them a childand another 17 have been injured after the bombing perpetrated on a pediatric hospital in Mariupol, according to Ukrainian sources.
Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky has called the bombing of the hospital an “atrocity”. The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrovfor his part, has denied that there were patients in the Mariupol children’s hospital and has accused “the Western media” of only presenting “the Ukrainian point of view.”
In this context, this Thursday a meeting between the foreign ministers of Ukraine and Russia was held in Turkey, which ended without an agreement. Kiev has called for a 24-hour ceasefire and the establishment of a human corridor in Mariupol. However, Russia has rejected it.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Dmytro Kuleba, has affirmed that the contacts have been settled without a ceasefire agreement, although he has shown himself willing to “continue the negotiations”. “Ukraine has proposed a humanitarian corridor to and from Mariupol and a ceasefire of at least one day to solve the humanitarian problems of civilians. The Russian side has not agreed. I am ready to continue negotiations,” he said. .
At this time, the humanitarian corridor agreed between Ukraine and Russia to evacuate the population of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol is completely blocked.
Mariupol City Hallthe southeastern Ukrainian city of about 500,000,000 inhabitants, has accused Russian forces of deliberately destroying civilian infrastructure in the city, the UNIAN agency reported.
In fact, he estimates that more than 1,000 people have died in this port city due to the siege and bombardment by Russia and its rebel allies, a figure that is difficult to verify for now.
Russia has increased its pressure on Mariupol in recent days, with a view to trying to unite the territories it controls in eastern Ukraine and the Crimean peninsula, also under its rule. Civilian evacuation plans have advanced slowly, amid cross accusations by Russian and Ukrainian troops.
Source: Eitb
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