As the head of the Ukrainian state said, he spoke with Macron about countering Russian aggression.
“We discussed the negotiation process – the course and prospects, the importance of security guarantees. France’s initiative on humanitarian corridors from Mariupol must be implemented!” Zelensky wrote.
Continued talks with the President * @EmmanuelMacron. He spoke about countering Russian aggression. They discussed the negotiation process – the course and prospects, the importance of security guarantees. The initiative * on humanitarian corridors from Mariupol must be implemented!
– Volodymyr Zelenskyy (@ZelenskyyUa) April 1, 2022
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french channel BFMTV reports that the two presidents spoke about the humanitarian catastrophe that has developed in Mariupol.
Zelensky, according to the channel, asked Macron to “continue his diplomatic efforts” to obtain from Russia “the conditions necessary for the conduct of a humanitarian operation by competent international organizations.”
Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias said on March 22 about intention to personally accompany humanitarian aid to the besieged Mariupol. Macron said on March 25 that France, Greece and Turkey will hold “exceptional humanitarian operation” for the evacuation of residents of Mariupol. But during their most recent conversation on March 29, Macron and Russian President Vladimir Putin failed to agree on the evacuation of residents of Mariupol.
Mariupol is the largest port city on the coast of the Sea of Azov. The battles for the city have been going on since February 24, when a large-scale invasion of Russian troops into Ukraine began. Russian troops failed to storm Mariupol and began to drop aerial bombs on it, shelling residential areas from artillery pieces and multiple rocket launchers. The authorities of Mariupol believe that the occupiers they want to capture the city in order to “break through the corridor” from the Rostov region of the Russian Federation in the occupied Crimea.
Residents of the besieged Mariupol because of the Russian occupiers were left without water, light, heat and connection. In the city have problems with medicines and food products. For about three weeks – until March 14 – the evacuation from the city was not carried out due to constant shelling by the Russian occupation forces, but then the residents had the opportunity to leave the city by private transport along a special corridor.
By information According to the State Statistics Service of Ukraine, about 450 thousand people lived in Mariupol before the full-scale Russian invasion. It remains in it according to the mayor’s office, about 160 thousand people. According to local authorities, the city about 5 thousand inhabitants diedof which about 210 are children.
On the night of March 31, the Russian Federation confirmed its readiness open a humanitarian corridor from Mariupol, said Deputy Prime Minister – Minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories Irina Vereshchuk. Ukraine sent 45 buses to Mariupol to evacuate people. On April 1, it became known that buses for evacuation from Mariupol were not allowed in by the invaders to Berdyansk, and in Melitopol they took away humanitarian aid.
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