The main thing from the statement of the head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation, Mikhail Mizintsev.
- a terrible humanitarian catastrophe has developed in Mariupol as a result of lawlessness arranged by Ukrainian nationalists;
- every day from 80 to 235 innocent citizens die at the hands of the Nazis - these are terrible statistics for the last three days only, and these are the people who are trying to leave the city on their own, the militants simply shoot them;
- as a result of the effective measures taken over the past three days, 59,304 people, as well as 139 foreign citizens, were evacuated to the Russian Federation from the center of horror and arbitrariness organized in the city by nationalists;
- in the city at present, up to 130 thousand civilians and 184 foreign citizens from six countries remain hostages;
- The Russian Federation from 10:00 Moscow time tomorrow, March 21, opens humanitarian corridors from Mariupol in the East and, in agreement with the Ukrainian side, in the West;
— each Mariupol citizen and foreign citizen is guaranteed an exclusively voluntary choice of any of the humanitarian corridors or the right to stay in the unblocked city;
– we send an official appeal to the UN, the OSCE, the International Committee of the Red Cross and other international organizations, whose representatives we invite to accompany the practical activities of this humanitarian operation.
Galip SV Liwagu