According to information from Kyiv, another attempt to bring people from the besieged port city of Mariupol to safety and relief supplies has failed in southern Ukraine. “It was not possible to reach Mariupol,” Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk told the strana.news portal. The convoy remained in Berdyansk because there had been air raids on Mariupol. “But we’ll try once more tomorrow morning,” announced Wereshchuk.
So far, no attempt has been successful to transport relief supplies to the embattled city on the Azov Sea and to get residents out. Both sides in the war, the Russian and the Ukrainian, blame each other.
More than 2,100 dead in Mariupol
In other places, however, escape corridors have been successful, said the politician. A total of 7,000 people were brought to safety from Sievjerodonetsk and Lyssychansk in the eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk, as well as from Irpin and Bucha northwest of the capital Kyiv.
According to the city administration, more than 2,100 residents have been killed in Mariupol since the beginning of the Russian offensive. The Russian “occupiers are cynically and deliberately attacking residential buildings and densely populated areas and destroying children’s hospitals and municipal facilities,” the city government said on Telegram today.