Ukraine accused Russia at the UN of breaking an agreement reached in the last hours to facilitate the evacuation of civilians, following demanding that these people be sent to Russia or Belarus.
Ukraine accused Russia on Monday at the UN of breaking an agreement reached in the last few hours to facilitate the evacuation of civilians from several cities. this Tuesday by once once more demanding that humanitarian corridors go only to Russian or Belarusian territory.
The Ukrainian ambassador to the United Nations, Sergiy Kyslytsya, assured during a meeting of the Security Council that he had received a notification from Kiev moments before assuring that Moscow had backed down on its commitments.
According to Kyslytsya, the Russian authorities sent a letter indicating that only civilians would be allowed to leave for Russia and Belarus, despite the fact that an alternative route had been agreed upon shortly before.
“I call on the Russians to retract and return to what was previously agreed to allow Ukrainian and foreign citizens to go to Europe,” the diplomat said.
The Russian ambassador to the UN, Vasili Nebenzia, then took the floor to contradict his Ukrainian counterpart and ensure that it was the Kiev forces that did not want to allow civilians to leave, assuring that his country had given the green light to corridors to that the population leaves for the west of the Ukraine, in addition to Russia and Belarus.
The exchange came following the third round of negotiations between Russia and Ukraine ended today with little progress in improving the logistics of those corridors, according to Mykhailo Podolyak, the adviser to the Office of the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky.
The new meeting between the two parties took place in Belovezhskaya Pushcha, in the Belarusian region of Brest, near the Polish border, as in the second meeting on the 3rd.
It also came following the planned evacuations failed this Monday for the third consecutive time due to the violation of the humanitarian ceasefire announced by Russia, for whose non-compliance both parties blamed each other once more.
The chief Russian negotiator, Vladimir Medinski, affirmed in turn that Moscow expects the humanitarian corridors to start operating tomorrow, Tuesday.
“We said it clearly. We hope that tomorrow these corridors will finally start working. The Ukrainian side has given us guarantees of this, ”he said, according to the Interfax agency.