Putin: Ukrainian nationalists block evacuation of civilians from Mariupol

The Russian president Vladimir Putin He accused the Ukrainian authorities of preventing the evacuation of civilians from Mariupol during a telephone conversation with his French counterpart Emanuel Macron.

Putin “drew attention to the fact that Kyiv continues to disregard the agreements reached on these humanitarian issues,” adding that “Ukrainian nationalists prevented the evacuation of civilians” on Saturday from Mariupol and Volnovaka, a nearby town. the Kremlin.

On Saturday, Moscow and Kyiv announced that they had reached an agreement ceasefire and the creation of humanitarian corridors to allow the evacuation of these two cities, which are surrounded by Russian forces and their allies, before accusing each other of violating the agreement.

In a conversation with Macron, Putin accused the Ukrainian forces present in the two cities of “using the ceasefire to strengthen their capabilities.”

A new attempt today to evacuate civilians from Mariupol, a city with a population of 450,000, has been “stopped”, DEES announced.

The other big question Macron and Putin discussed, according to the Kremlin, was international concern about the safety of Ukraine’s nuclear facilities, following fighting in recent days near the Chernobyl and Zaporizhia power plants, where a fire broke out.

Putin accused “Ukrainian extremists” and “saboteurs” of being behind the Zaporizhye incidents, adding that “attempts to blame Russia are part of cynical propaganda.”

A convoy carrying civilians for safe evacuation could not leave the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol today as Russian forces continued bombing despite a temporary ceasefire agreement, local authorities said.

“It is extremely dangerous to evict people under such conditions,” the city council said in a statement posted on the Internet.

Source: News Beast

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