“Due to the lack of control over their own army, the invaders have not been able to guarantee a proper ceasefire,” said Ukraine’s deputy prime minister, Irina Vereshchuk.
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Ukraine’s deputy prime minister, Irina Vereshchuk, confirmed on Wednesday that the humanitarian corridor opened in Mariupol throughout the day has not worked as planned and has blamed Russia for “the lack of control over its own Army”.
“Due to the lack of control over their own army, the invaders have not been able to guarantee a proper ceasefire,” Vereshchuk said in a statement released through his Facebook profile.
In turn, Vereshchuk has pointed out as part of the failure the “inherent disorganization and negligence” of the Russian authorities, who have also been unable to “provide timely transportation” to move people to the point where “dozens” of Ukrainian-chartered buses and ambulances were waiting.
The deputy mayor of Mariupol He has warned that there are “many” civilian refugees in the Azovstal steelworks and has called the information about possible evacuations “false”. In this way, he has stressed that “all the news about the possibility of leaving, of leaving Mariupol or the Azovstal steel mill, are false.”
Ultimatum until 2:00 p.m.
The Russian Navy has given another ultimatum the Ukrainian forces to lay down their arms and withdraw from the Azovstal metallurgical plant in Mariupol this Wednesday, after yesterday no one surrendered in the two hours given by Russia to do so.
“The Russian Armed Forces, guided by purely human principles, again offer militants of nationalist battalions and mercenaries to stop fighting and lay down their arms at 14:00 local time (1:00 p.m. in the Basque Country),” said the head of the National Defense Control Center, Colonel General Mijaíl Mizíntsev.
On the day of this TuesdayRussia specified that, during the activation of the ceasefire to evacuate civilians, the Ukrainian military did not leave the plant.
On the other hand, the head of the Donetsk Regional State Administration, Pavlo Kirilenko, has reported an explosion at the plant, without specifying victims or the origin of the explosion, according to the Ukrainian Cadena 24.
The forces of the self-proclaimed People’s Republic of Donetsk have announced this Tuesday the start of an offensive against this steelworks.
Refugees from the war in Ukraine already amount to 5 million
The people who have had to flee from Ukraine as a result of the war already amount to 5 million, according to the latest balance of the United Nations Agency for Refugees (UNHCR).
Poland has received more than half of this exodus (2.8 million), and other neighboring countries of Ukraine have also received a large number of refugees, such as Romania (757,000), Russia (549,000) or Hungary (471,000). ).
Source: Eitb
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