War in Ukraine: Kyiv hopes to remove civilians from Azovstal in Mariupol today

THE Ukraine hopes today to removes civilians who have resorted to extensive Azovstal steel plant in Mariupolwho are with the last warriors defending this city – a port of strategic importance in southern Ukraine.

“An operation is planned today to evacuate the civilians from the factory,” the Ukrainian president’s office said in a statement. Volodymyr Zelensky, without further specifying.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said after a meeting with Zelensky in Kyiv on Thursday that Intensive talks are under way to allow the evacuation of the Azovstal steel plantwhich is being pounded by the Russian forces that have occupied it Mariupol.

On Tuesday, as the Athenian-Macedonian News Agency reminds, Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed “in principle” for the involvement of the UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross in the evacuation of the Azofstal factory.

According to the municipal council of Mariupol, about 100,000 people across the city are in “mortal danger” due to Russian bombing and unhealthy conditions. The city council also describes the city’s lack of drinking water and food as “catastrophic”.

Ukraine: A Russian checkpoint in the Kursk province was targeted by bombs

Target bombings became today a checkpoint in village in the Kursk province of Russiawhich borders Ukraine, announced the governor of the region.

“Mortars were fired at a checkpoint in the village of Krupets,” said Kursk provincial governor Roman Starovoit.

Starovit noted that Russian border guards and the army responded to the fire. “There were no casualties or damage,” he said.

Source: News Beast

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