The UN has made the evacuation of civilians from the areas hardest hit by the war, in particular the city of Mariúpol, its top priority, while continuing to monitor “the horrors” the country is experiencing as a result of the armed conflict. to denounce.
In recent hours, Russian troops have continued the attacks on the Azovstal steel mills, in the besieged city of Mariupol, as they made progress in their goal of controlling the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, in eastern Ukraine, according to the latest section of the Ukrainian Army High Command released by the local agency uinform
For its part, the Kremlin assures that its armed forces will continue to follow President Vladimir Putin’s order not to attack the steel plant, although it assures that the to block of the factory continues. In this way he wanted to imply that he will continue to keep his promise to keep three day truce to facilitate the evacuations in the area.
Putin ordered on April 21 call off the storm van Azovstal, an area of 11 square kilometers, to avoid casualties, but ordered the industrial zone to be blocked in such a way that “no more flies come out”. Meanwhile, Russia retains control of the rest of Mariupol.
Stage “a win”
According to the Ukrainian government, Russia plans to celebrate in the port city on May 9. Victory Day on Nazi Germany, “Russian television is spreading stories of the ‘joy’ with which local residents greeted the Russian occupation forces.” For his part, the Prime Minister of Hungary, Victor Orbantold Pope Francis that Putin would like end the conflict that day after the total conquest of the city.
Meanwhile, the Azovstal factory is the last stronghold of the Ukrainian resistance in the strategic port city of Mariupol, and they are still standing there. hundreds of citizens anchored since the beginning of the Russian invasion on February 24, including boys and girls, although some have already been able to leave thanks to a evacuation operation sponsored by the UN and Red Cross
Humanitarian evacuations
The UN has made the evacuation of civilians from the most war-affected areas, mainly the city of Mariupol, its top priority, “the horrors” live in the country as a result of the armed conflict.
The organization has confirmed that it was launched this Thursday another mission to free people trapped by the fighting in Mariupol and at the Azovstal steel factory. The operation was carried out jointly with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), like the other two carried out this week, resulting in the evacuation of nearly half a thousand peoples, of which at least a hundred were in the factory.
Since the start of the conflict, the UN has been limited to a limited role in Ukraine, as the Russian veto blocks any action in the Security Council and because Moscow does not consider UN Secretary-General António Guterres as impartial and therefore does not accept him as a mediator to to negotiate peace.
The organization has therefore chosen to focus on the humanitarian aspect, coordinating the relief efforts and the evacuation of civilians as much as possible.
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Source: EITB
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