The Mariupol city council said on Sunday that it was not possible to evacuate a convoy of civilians through a humanitarian corridor because of Russian bombing.
“It is extremely dangerous to take people out in such conditions,” the city council said in an online statement.
The reopening of humanitarian corridors for civilians to leave the cities of Mariupol and Volnovakha was scheduled for Sunday morning.
“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, according to Russian news agency TASS.
The governor of the region where Mariupol is located had also confirmed the information about the operation to evacuate civilians.
In a post on Twitter, the governor of Donetsk, Pavlo Kyrylenko, said that the humanitarian corridor would open at 12:00 local time (07:00 GMT).
According to Kyrylenko, the ceasefire was supposed to run between 10 am and 9 pm local time.
The Ukrainian government previously said the plan was to evacuate around 200,000 people from Mariupol and 15,000 from Volnovakha and that the Red Cross is the guarantor of the ceasefire.
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 city’s mayor said on Saturday, accusing Russia of trying to “smother” the city by closing routes. of escape agreed.
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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