The leadership in Donetsk said that it had documents confirming this plan, according to a Sky News Arabia delegate.
According to the documents, the aforementioned scheme was promised with Western support, with the participation of Ukrainian Nazi nationalist groups.
And Pavlo Kirilenko, head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration, had stated that the ceasefire would be in effect between ten in the morning and nine in the evening in Mariupol, according to the Associated Press.
A promised ceasefire collapsed Saturday in Mariupol, and Ukrainian officials said the evacuation of civilians had been aborted because the besieged city was still under attack.
Russian President Vladimir Putin blamed Ukraine for the collapse of the ceasefire and warned that continued resistance by Ukraine was putting the country’s future at risk.