Hours earlier, another adviser to the Ukrainian presidency, Mijailo Podoliak, tweeted that the government demanded “a truce” in Mariupol for Orthodox Easter, which is celebrated today.
He also called for “an immediate humanitarian corridor for the civilians” stranded in that port city, as well as “an agreement for special negotiations to exchange military prisoners.”
According to President Volodimir Zelensky, Ukrainian fighters from the city were holding out in the large factory in Azovstal, without food or ammunition, and “about a thousand civilians, women and children” and “hundreds wounded.”
Days ago, the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, had demanded the surrender of these last combatants and asked his army to besiege “the area so that not even a fly can get through.”
Russia claims it is seeking “full control” of southern Ukraine and the Donbass region, made up of the Russian-speaking breakaway provinces of Donetsk and Luhansk.
That way, it would be possible to build a land bridge to Crimea, which Moscow annexed in 2014.
This is a new step in the negotiation process between Russia and Ukraine, which, until last Friday, according to what the Russian Foreign Minister, Serguei Lavrov, had stated, were at a standstill.
Last week, the Ukrainian government had said that negotiations with Russia were “extremely difficult”.
Source: Ambito
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