THE Ukraine proposed yesterday Holy Wednesday (20/4) at Russia a “special round of negotiations” in Mariupolfor the rescue of “civilians and soldiers”, said two Ukrainian negotiators.
Kyiv ready to hold “special round of talks” with Moscow in the besieged city of Mariupol unconditionallysaid Ukrainian negotiator Mikhail Pontolyak in a Twitter message.
Pontoliak clarified that the conversations could be “face to face. Two by two. To save our children, (the battalion) Azov, the military, the civilians, the children, the living and the wounded. “wrote the negotiator and adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
“We are ready to come with Mikhail Pontoliak at any time for these negotiations, as soon as we receive confirmation from the Russian side”for his part said the head of the Ukrainian negotiators David Arahamia in the Telegram.
After weeks of fighting, the city seems to be falling into the hands of Russian forceswho have intensified their blows, according to one of the Ukrainian military commanders besieged in Mariupol.
“The enemy has ten times the strength of us”said Sergei Volina of the 36th Marine Brigade.
According to President Zelenskythe Ukrainian soldiers who are fortified in the huge Azovstal steel plant, the last pocket of resistance in the city, “protect at the cost of their lives (…) almost a thousand civilians, women and children”.
The proposal came shortly after Deputy Prime Minister Irina Veresuk stated that The humanitarian corridor for the evacuation of civilians from the besieged Mariupol, in the south-east of Ukraine, “did not work” yesterday, Holy Wednesday (20/4)accusing the Russians of violating the ceasefire and blocking buses.
For his part now, earlier yesterday o Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he was ready to meet with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.
“I am always ready to meet him, he only needs a place and a date” he specifically said in an interview with the French television station BFM.
At the same time, he stressed that has not seen or heard anything about the draft terms of the end of the war that the Kremlin says it sent to Kyiv. He was commenting on a statement by Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peshkov that Moscow was awaiting “a response” after handing over such a document to the Ukrainian side.
Source: News Beast
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