The authorities of the city of Izyum, located near Kharkiv, did not inform the population about the humanitarian corridor, said on Wednesday, March 9, a Ukrainian military man who voluntarily laid down his arms.
“I learned about the green corridor in Izyum from Russian soldiers when I was already taken prisoner. It turns out that there was a 12-hour corridor for the withdrawal of equipment and civilians from the city of Izyum. But this was presented to us, how the Russian troops are asking for a green corridor for themselves to leave … This was not communicated to the masses, it was not communicated to the population. People didn’t even know that there was a green corridor, ”quotes the captive Ukrainian military man as saying.RIA News“.
Earlier, on March 9, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation, said that the humanitarian situation throughout Ukraine continues to deteriorate rapidly. According to him, the Russian side maintains a regime of silence on the humanitarian corridors in Ukraine. He also said that Ukraine is making obviously impossible demands to open a humanitarian corridor.
Earlier in the day, the headquarters of the territorial defense of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) reported that Kyiv was preparing provocations with humanitarian corridors in Mariupol and Volnovakha, exits from cities could be mined.
Russia launched an operation to protect the civilian population of Donbass on February 24 against the backdrop of escalation in the region due to shelling by the Ukrainian military. As Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov clarified at the time, the goals of the special operation are also the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine. According to him, both of these aspects pose a threat to the Russian state and people.
The Russian side also emphasized that it does not hatch plans for the occupation of Ukraine, and strikes are carried out only on the military infrastructure of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
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