UN Secretary-General visits Ukraine to seek evacuation of civilians from Mariupol / Article

The UN Secretary-General said after a meeting with Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin that the UN was ready to fully mobilize its logistics and human resources to help save lives in Mariupol.

Guteresre proposed building forces between the UN, the International Committee of the Red Cross and Ukraine, as well as Russia, to ensure the safe evacuation of civilians from Mariupol. Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmitro Kuleba has also emphasized that the Mariupol issue must become a UN priority.

“In the direction of Mariupol, the enemy makes a massive fire and blocks our units in the area of ​​the” Azovstal “factory. The occupiers of the city continue to carry out filtering measures against the civilian population, “said Oleksandr Stupun, a spokesman for the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Russian troops, meanwhile, continue to attack eastern Ukraine in an effort to establish full control of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions and to secure a land corridor between those territories and the occupied Crimea. In Donetsk and Luhansk, Ukrainian forces managed to repel several attacks.

According to Oleg Sinegubov, chairman of the Kharkiv region’s military administration, Russian forces continue to shoot in the Kharkiv region, where several civilians have been injured and killed. Ukrainian armed forces have thwarted attempts to break into Avdijivka. Avdijivka in the Donetsk region has been fired by Russian forces both at night and today.

The Ukrainian army said on Wednesday that Russian forces had managed to penetrate deeper into the east of Ukraine and that two tactical battalions had been transferred to the city of Izh in the Kharkiv region.

In support of the ground forces in the south and east of Ukraine, Russia is performing its air force operations there.

The British Ministry of Defense has concluded that Ukraine still controls most of its airspace and threatens Russian aviation, which has failed to destroy the Ukrainian air force and air defense system.

The fighting continues in the south, in the Kherson region, where Ukrainian forces have managed to regain control of several settlements in recent days.

In the temporarily occupied Kherson, Russian forces plan to hold a pseudo-referendum on the establishment of the “Kherson People’s Republic”.

Residents of the city took to the streets on Wednesday to protest, but were violently dispersed. Russian military personnel used gas and noise grenades, and several people were injured.

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