The Russian Armed Forces said they were ready to open the corridors and release the nationalists from Mariupol, but the Ukrainian authorities refused the offer.
New statement from the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation:
- The RF Armed Forces are ready to guarantee the lives of nationalists who lay down their arms upon leaving Mariupol;
- according to radio intercepts, up to 200 militants deserted from Mariupol in the Zaporozhye direction, 93 of them were liquidated;
- in the last three days, Ukrainian nationalists have been actively communicating with Kiev on the unblocking of Mariupol;
- Kyiv officials offer the nationalists blocked in Mariupol to use more than 200 thousand civilians as human shields;
- the Kiev authorities understand the impossibility of rendering assistance to the nationalists blocked in Mariupol and offer them to sacrifice themselves;
- over 14.3 thousand people were evacuated to Russia from dangerous regions of Ukraine in a day without the participation of official Kyiv;
- Russia warns the UN, OSCE and the Red Cross about possible crimes against civilians in Mariupol and attempts to attribute them to the Russian Federation;
- nationalists fired at the place of distribution of humanitarian aid in Kharkov, in Severodonetsk they shot civilians.
Galip SV Liwagu