Humanitarian corridors in the port city of Mariupol have not been activated. On the other hand, Biden has announced a $1.3 billion aid package for Ukraine.
Russian troops keep their distancelarge-scale offensive in Ukrainewhere in recent hours the attacks have increased in the southeast of the country, especially in the region Donetsk and the district Tavriyaaccording to the latter part of the Ukrainian military high command.
According to the Ukrainian military command, ten attacks by Russian troops have been repulsed in the past 24 hours in the provinces of Donetsk and Luhansk, and six tanks, eight armored units, 15 vehicles and four artillery systems have been destroyed.
Regarding the siege of the port city of Mariúpol, the Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister, Irina Vereschuk, has reported that the evacuation of civilians is going very “very slow” and that it has not been possible to release the humanitarian corridors.
“There’s nothing to write home about. Mariupol Everything is going very slow. On the Russian side, everything is very complicated, chaotic, slow and of course unfair,” Vereschuk said in a statement on his Facebook account.
He emphasized that the fact that “yesterday for the first time people went directly from Mariupol to Zaporizhzhya (these are the four buses that left Mariupol yesterday) gives hope.”
Precisely in Mariúpol, the mayor, Vadym Boychenko, has denounced the existence of a large mass grave in which between 3,000 and 9,000 corpses are buried and has shown images taken by the technology company Maxar with a satellite.
$1.3 billion more from the US
The President of the United States, Joe Bidenhas announced another aid package with 800 million dollars (more than 735.6 million euros) to help the Ukrainian government militarily.
As Biden explained in a performance, with the help he wants to contribute to the struggle in the east of the country, in Donbas. The pack includes heavy artillery, drones and ammunition.
In addition, it has announced an additional $500 million (over 461 million euros) for the Ukrainian government, which they can use to “stabilize its economy, support devastated communities and pay the brave workers who continue to provide essential services to citizens.” , in the words of the chairman.
Source: EITB
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