Russia agreed to open humanitarian corridors from Mariupol on the condition that the Ukrainian military lay down their arms and leave the city. Local authorities also received offers of "

“They say the Russians offer the mayor’s office of Mariupol to go over to the side of Russia. Gave time until the morning to form an answer. And why wait so long if the answer is ready in advance. Fuck you, not Mariupol,” he wrote on Facebook.

Ukraine rejected the aggressor's ultimatum as unacceptable, says Minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories Irina Vereshchuk. Official response sent to RF.

In a commentary to Ukrayinska Pravda, the official said that Russia had sent an official letter in which it put forward an ultimatum for Ukrainian defenders to lay down their arms and leave Mariupol.. Only after that they offer the "

“There are eight pages with a return to history and other nonsense. They sent the same letter to the UN, the International Committee of the Red Cross and hoped that international structures would react and begin to put pressure on Ukraine. This did not happen. The ICRC and the UN understand that this is Russian manipulation and that this is taking people hostage,” says Vereshchuk.

Ukraine demands that the Russian military immediately open a corridor for civilians who can evacuate to Zaporozhye.

“There can be no talk of any surrender, laying down of arms. We have already notified the Russian side about this. I wrote: “Instead of wasting time on eight pages of letters, just open the corridor,” adds the minister.

Kyiv has also notified the UN and the International Committee for the ChH and is awaiting the reaction of the international community. This is a conscious manipulation and this is a real hostage taking of people, Irina Vereshchuk notes..

The minister was also outraged by the kidnapping. Russia is now using the same approach that it already tested in the occupied territory of Donbass in 2014: the occupiers kidnap Ukrainian children from orphanages and do not allow them to be taken away. Now 350 children are going to be taken to Russia.

“We ask clearly: give us a corridor and write which boarding school we are going to and why. They immediately take the children to Russia. This is terrorism,"

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Mariupol has remained under constant heavy shelling since the start of a full-scale Russian invasion. The invaders literally wipe the city off the face of the earth and destroy its inhabitants with particular cruelty. It is extremely important for the aggressor to establish control over the key city of the Donetsk region and the important Ukrainian port on Azov, to break the resistance of its defenders and residents.

Blockade of Mariupol lasts 26th day. In terms of duration, it is still incomparable with Leningrad, but it surpasses it in intensity of shelling and inhumanity..

A city with hundreds of thousands of civilians, taken hostage by Putin, should not become a second DAP or Ilovaisk. Does Ukraine have a strategy for Mariupol? If there is no military solution, what is And most importantly - how quickly it can be implemented? Read more in the article by Inna Vedernikova \? » to ZN. U.A..