The Russian Defense Ministry announced the destruction of all firing points used by the “neo-Nazis” and their forces in the suburbs of the city of Mariupol and in residential areas by the Russian army.
“The Russian side proposed the establishment of 10 humanitarian corridors on March 14, and the Ukrainian authorities approved three of them, and proposed 11 additional corridors,” she said in a statement.
The Russian Defense said: “The operation to lift the siege around Mariupol allowed the opening of humanitarian corridors and the start of the evacuation of the population. Since the beginning of the special operation of the Russian Armed Forces, 248,993 people have been evacuated, including 54,481 children.”
“During the past day, 8,575 people were evacuated from dangerous areas of Ukraine and the People’s Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk, including 1,292 children,” she added, noting that the civilian population of the liberated areas of Ukraine receives 110 tons of basic and food items daily.
And it indicated that “6972 citizens of 22 foreign countries are still being held hostage by the militants of the territorial defense brigades in Ukraine,” pointing out that the number of refugees is increasing flowing across Ukraine’s western borders to Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Romania.
The Russian Defense stressed that the “neo-Nazis” continue to kill the Russian-speaking population in whole or in part, and in fact practice genocide, noting that most of the population held by the ultra-nationalists in the cities of Ukraine seek refuge in Russia and not in the West.
And she continued, “The number of requests for evacuation from Ukraine increased by more than 12,000 per day, and amounted to more than 2.6 million. Over the past two days, the Russian Armed Forces managed to evacuate 21,345 people, in the directions of Zhytomyr, Lugansk and Donetsk.”
The ministry emphasized that “extremist nationalists are forcing men from 18 to 60 years of age under threat of reprisals from family members to join battalions in Kharkov, Odessa and Nikolayev.”
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