Kyiv says 'no question' of surrender in Mariupol after Russia sets 5am deadline [View all]
Source: the guardian
Moscow, saying ‘terrible humanitarian catastrophe’ is unfolding in city, offers safe passages to fighters who give in
Man carrying bag with tanks in background
Tanks of pro-Russian troops on the outskirts of the besieged southern port city of Mariupol in Ukraine. Photograph: Alexander
Sun 20 Mar 2022 18.14 EDT Last modified on Sun 20 Mar 2022 20.42 EDT
Russia has given Ukrainian forces a deadline of 5am Moscow time (2am GMT) on Monday to lay down their arms in the eastern port city of Mariupol, where it said a “terrible humanitarian catastrophe” was unfolding.
“Lay down your arms,” Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, the director of the Russian National Defence Management Center, said on Sunday in a briefing. “A terrible humanitarian catastrophe has developed,” he said. “All who lay down their arms are guaranteed safe passage out of Mariupol.”
The deadline was quickly rejected by Ukraine’s deputy prime minister Iryna Vereshchuk saying that there can be “no question” of surrender.
“There can be no talk of any surrenders, laying down of arms. We have already informed the Russian side about this,” she said, according to online news site Ukrainska Pravda. “Instead of wasting time on 8 pages of letters, just open a [humanitarian] corridor.”.........................................
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I would not trust Putin. nope. gods, what a horrible place to be in.
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