Mariupol in southern Ukraine is besieged by Russian forces and for more than a week, more than 400,000 residents of this strategically important city try to survive by receiving fire without water and electricity. Repeated attempts to achieve a local ceasefire and their safe exit from the city have failed.
Deputy Prime Minister Irina Verestsuk said today that Ukraine hopes to successfully open a “humanitarian corridor” today so that civilians can leave Mariupol.
“We hope it will work today,” Verestsuk told television networks, noting that she hoped other “humanitarian corridors” would open in the country today.
Russia’s Defense Ministry has announced that it will open “humanitarian corridors” from Kyiv, Sumy, Kharkiv (Kharkov), Mariupol and Chernihiv.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said no civilians were able to leave Mariupol on Thursday, a day after an attack on a children’s hospital in the city killed three people, he said.
The bombing of the city by Russian forces is responsible for the failure of the attempt to evacuate civilians from Mariupol, Zelenski noted, as reported by Reuters and relayed by the Athens News Agency.
THE Russia blames Ukraine for failing to set up “humanitarian corridors” and denies targeting civilians. Moscow has described its actions in Ukraine as a “special operation” aimed at disarming Ukraine and ousting neo-Nazi leaders.
Kyiv will no longer buy nuclear fuel from Russia
Meanwhile, the Ukrainian state’s nuclear power company, Energoatom, will no longer buy nuclear fuel from Russia, according to a statement issued today.
Ukraine has Soviet-era nuclear reactors and imports its nuclear fuel from Russia and the United States.
Source: News Beast
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