The ukrainian government has offered to Russia negotiate a “immediate ceasefire“at a meeting in the Azovstal metallurgicalone of the last strongholds of Ukrainian fighters entrenched in the city of Mariupol, besieged for weeks by Russian troops.
the presidential adviser Oleksei Arestovich has indicated that the proposal has been transferred to Moscow this Sunday morning, so they are already waiting for a possible response.
“We have invited the Russians to hold a special round of talks right before the walls of Azovstal (…) to negotiate a immediate ceasefire for Easterestablish humanitarian corridors and release or exchange our military for all Russian prisoners of war,” he explained, according to the Ukrainian news agency UNIAN.
Arestovich has warned that there will be “consequences” if Russia does not agree to the proposal. “We remind you that in the Kremlin you won’t like the consequences if you don’t agree“, he pointed out.
In addition, Arestovich has assured that there are five pockets of Ukrainian resistance in Mariupol, including the one in Azovstal, so it is wrong that there is only resistance on this last point and has thus denied the Russian Defense Minister, who has pointed out that Russian troops already control the city.
“It is not as Sergei Shoigu has said. Everything remains the same. First of all, our military are in Azovstal and in four more places in Mariupol. Second, they have bombarded Azovstal for five days with heavy bombs from strategic bombers. They have tried to take it by storm”, but they have suffered “very, very large losses“.
On the other hand, the commander of the Kharkov military region, Oleh Sinegubovhas denounced that the Russian troops have occupied one of the Vovchansk factories and have installed there a “torture chamber”“to force the population to cooperate or to enlist in the Russian Army.
“They’ve turned it into a prisonin a real concentration camp where people are tortured to force them to cooperate, to join the Armed Forces,” Sinegubov said on Ukrainian television.
In Izium, the Russian troops would have forced the population to march towards Russian territory or join the troops, according to Sinegubov, who assures that civilians resisted and refused to join the invading army.
Source: Lasexta
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