Efforts to evacuate residents from South Ukrainian city surrounded from Mariupol which collapsed for the second day on Sunday, said the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), blamed the agreement that was not quite clear between the two parties.
“In the midst of the awesome administration of human suffering in Mariupol, the second attempt today to begin to evacuate around 200,000 people out of the city were stopped,” ICRC said in a statement.
‘Extremely dangerous’
The Mariupol City Council said that the convoy of refugees could not leave on Sundays because Russian forces continued to lay eggs even though the ceasefire agreement was intended to survive the night. A similar evacuation plan was foiled with shooting on Saturday.
“It’s very dangerous to bring people in such conditions,” the city council said in a statement.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian authorities said about 400 people escaped from the nearest City of Volovakha with a similar evacuation plan came under Russian API on Sunday. They did not say whether there were victims.
Russian President Vladimir Putin in a telephone call with his partner France Emmanuel Macron blamed Kyiv for failed civilian evacuation. He also spoke with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, who filed a ceasefire in the conflict which was said by the United Nations had created a crisis of refugees that grew the fastest in Europe since the Second World War.
In Kyiv, the Ukrainian army supports defense by digging a trench, blocking the road and relating to the civil defense unit when Russian troops bombard the nearest area. “The position was prepared, we had guided them and we just waited to meet them here,” said a soldier. “Victory will be ours.”