Moscow claimed that a humanitarian hallway would be open Friday, April 1st from 10 am to allow the inhabitants to flee the city, besieged, to Zaporijia. But Western side, many doubts that the operation can be carried out.
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Russia will she hold Word? Thursday, March 31, Moscow said to accept the establishment of a “humanitarian hallway” to allow the inhabitants of the city martyrdom of Maroupol to flee the city, besieged, isolated and bombarded tireless for more than a month. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, this corridor should be open Friday 1 Er April “de Maroupol in Zaporijia [220 km northwest of Ukraine] from 10 hours, hour of Moscow [9 hours, Paris time] “. This measure is taken as a result of “a personal request from the French President and the German Chancellor to the Russian President Vladimir Putin,” he added.
The Ukrainian authorities have decided to dispatch on the spot a convoy of 45 buses, in order to evacuate the population as soon as possible. Seventeen buses left for Maroupol, said Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Verechtchouk.
The International Red Cross Committee (ICRC) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees must be associated with the device. The ICRC has already tried several times to organize evacuations from Maroupol, in vain so far. “It is vital that these operations can take place. The lives of tens of thousands of people in Maroupol depend on it”, insisted the organization.
TERRES in cellars, without water or food
More than 160 000 inhabitants are blocked in the city in terrible conditions. Those who have managed to go with their own vehicle, taking big risks, have told how civilians live in cellars, deprived of water, food and any communication, with corpses that litters rush the streets. The European Union denounced this blockade as a “major war crime”. The municipality also accuses Moscow for evacuating “against their will” more than 20,000 inhabitants of Maroupol in Russia.
The announcement of a humanitarian pause in the fighting is all the more expected as it occurs after several days of insistent requests from Emmanuel Macron. The head of state had launched on Thursday, March 24 in Brussels a call for a vast evacuation operation.
After a few days of contacts in all directions, Mr. Macron could speak on Tuesday to the Russian President Vladimir Putin by phone – his ninth appeal with him since the triggering of the invasion by Russia on February 24. However, it did not open up on any progress: the head of the Kremlin had refused to take any commitment, promising only his interlocutor to come back to him after studying the question.
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