Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said evacuation corridors did not work on Wednesday as the Russian military did not stop its attacks.
“We are ready to evacuate people and send humanitarian aid, but we cannot expose people to roadside bombings,” he said in a video message posted to Facebook early Thursday.
Zelenksy said residents who previously escaped the besieged southeastern city of Mariupol are being relocated to safer areas.
“We are taking Mariupol residents who managed to flee to Berdyansk, Zaporizhzhia. In total, more than 6,000 Mariupol residents were transported in one day, more than 2,000 of them are children,” he said.
However, Zelensky said the Russian military also tried to stop this movement by firing on the stretch of road between Vasylivka and Kamyanske in the Zaporizhzhia region. Five Ukrainians were wounded, he said.
In the northern city of Chernihiv, Russian forces fired on civilians in the bread line, killing 10 people, Zelensky added.
Talks continue: The president said that if Russia’s war against Ukraine continues, “Russia’s mothers will lose more children than in the wars in Afghanistan and Chechnya combined.”
Zelensky said that negotiations with Russia are ongoing and that his priorities in the talks are clear: “the end of the war, security guarantees, sovereignty, restoration of territorial integrity, real guarantees for our country, real protection for our country.”
Source: CNN Brasil
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