Ukrainian troops are to leave the heavily contested port city of Mariupol unarmed via an agreed route. That is what Russia demands. They have two hours to do this on Monday morning.
Russia is calling on Ukrainian troops in Mariupol to lay down their arms and leave the port city, which has been particularly hard hit by fighting, on Monday morning.
For this purpose, a corridor should be set up between 10:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. Moscow time (8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. CET), Major General Mikhail Mizintsev said on Sunday, according to the Russian state agency TASS.
No reaction from the Ukrainian side
Accordingly, Russia proposed to Ukraine a plan according to which all armed units of Ukraine should leave the city “without weapons and ammunition by the route agreed with Ukraine”. Russia insists on a “formal written response” from Ukraine to the proposals by 5 a.m. Moscow time (3 a.m. CET) on Monday morning. There was initially no reaction to the plans from the Ukrainian side.
According to Mizintsev, civilians should also be allowed to leave the city for Russia or Ukrainian-controlled areas. According to Russian information, there are currently 130,000 civilians in the city.
The city council of Mariupol recently accused Moscow of bringing civilians to Russia against their will. Mizintsev, in turn, accused Kyiv of holding the civilians in Mariupol hostage.
According to Russian information, more than 16,400 people from the self-proclaimed People’s Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk were brought to Russia on Sunday. A total of 330,686 people have been brought to Russia from Ukraine since February 24.
According to the UN, more than 3.1 million people have fled Ukraine abroad. Around two million people have arrived in Poland alone so far.
Source: Stern
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