The President of Ukraine stated that the Russians are blocking the deportation of people from the city.
Head of the Ukrainian State Volodymyr Zelenskyi no confirmed information about the capture of the whole of Mariupol by the occupiers, Interfax-Ukraine reports.
“Where our soldiers are staying. So far, they are staying there,” the president said during a briefing with the prime ministers of Spain and Denmark.
“The situation is difficult, bad, we believe that it has not changed since yesterday. Civilians have been blocked. Recently, the Russians have blocked the export. There was a proposal to exchange the wounded for the wounded,” said the head of state.
According to him, there are more than 400 wounded.
“We are ready for exchanges. We are also interested in the people who died there. We expect to return their bodies to their parents,” Zelensky stressed.
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Vladimir Putin hastened to praise the Russian army for the “liberation” of Mariupol after two months of fierce fighting. And this may be the same “great success” that Moscow dreams of. However, Ukraine rejected Russia's declared victory, pointing to strong resistance from the Ukrainian military to Azovstal.
The Financial Times writes, reminding that the defenders of the city are still defending themselves at the metallurgical plant, where about a thousand civilians are also hiding. But during a meeting with Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, Putin told him to congratulate the Russian army on the capture of the Ukrainian city, which has become an important goal for connecting the occupied part of Donbass with the territories occupied in southern Ukraine. But Shoigu, while insisting that the Russian army controlled Mariupol's residential areas, acknowledged that fighting for Azovstal was ongoing. In response, Putin advised him not to storm the plant, but instead “block it so that the fly does not fly.”
The appeal of the commander of the 36th Separate Marine Brigade, Serhiy Volyna, to Pope Francis to save Mariupol residents dying in the basements of Azovstal was another cry of a crying in the desert. Another testimony of hell on earth. For more information on the Pope's risk of losing Ukraine in this war, read Kateryna Shchotkina's article “ Get Out of Hell “.
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