Ukraine reacts to Russia’s disruption of opening of corridors for evacuation

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine called on Russia to stop violating agreements, stop spreading misinformation, and manipulating the lives of civilians.

The press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine reported this.

"Russia's armed forces continue bombardments and missile attacks on Kyiv, Mariupol, Volnovakha, Sumy, Mykolayiv, Kharkiv, and other cities, towns, and villages. This prevents the safe exit of humanitarian convoys carrying Ukrainian and foreign citizens, as well as the delivery of medications and food," the statement says.

At the same time, the department stressed that the evacuation of the population through humanitarian corridors is possible only if the ceasefire regime, to which the Ukrainian side is ready, is observed.

"We also consider as inappropriate any attempts by Moscow to force civilians in the besieged cities to flee to the territory of Russia and Belarus, taking into account high probability of provocations, in particular taking those evacuated as hostages or using them by the Russian armed forces as human shields," the statement said.

The Foreign Ministry of Ukraine calls on the countries whose leaders maintain contact with the President of Russia to make every effort to force Russia to provide a ceasefire to open humanitarian corridors and prevent a large-scale humanitarian catastrophe.