Aid corridors in the southeastern Ukrainian cities of Mariupol and Volnovakha are due to reopen today, according to Russian state news agency TASS.
The governor of the region where Mariupol is located also confirmed the information, saying that the evacuation of civilians was scheduled to start at 07:00, Brasília time.
“In the morning, humanitarian corridors will open again in both Mariupol and Volnovakha,” Eduard Basurin, deputy head of the so-called People’s Militia of the People’s Republic of Donetsk, told reporters TASS. The number of refugees who have left Ukraine has already exceeded the 1.5 million predicted by the UN (United Nations).
The information was reiterated by the Ukrainian governor of the Donetsk region – which was recognized as independent by the Russians – on his official Twitter account. In a post on Sunday morning (6), Pavlo Kyrylenko said that the evacuation of civilians would begin at 12:00 am local time (07:00 am GMT).
A ceasefire is expected to take effect from 10 am to 9 pm local time on Sunday, Kyrylenko said.
Civilians in the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol are stranded without power and water and unable to retrieve the bodies of those who died in the war, the mayor said on Saturday, accusing Russia of trying to “smother” the city by closing escape routes. awake.
Russia agreed to a ceasefire on Saturday to allow civilians to safely leave Mariupol and Volnovakha, where residents have suffered days of heavy and indiscriminate bombing.
But evacuations came to a halt, with Ukrainian authorities accusing Russia of violating the agreement by resuming its attacks, leaving thousands of civilians stranded in conditions that people on the ground describe as increasingly dire.
The Russian Defense Ministry claimed that “Russian forces were attacked after establishing humanitarian corridors” and accused “Ukrainian nationalists” of preventing the evacuation of civilians.
Source: CNN Brasil
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