Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky announced Sunday morning that the besieged city of Mariupol in the south-east of the country will receive the first aid shipment with essential supplies. The place – with temperatures close to minus 7 degrees – suffers from a lack of heating, water, food and medicine due to the bombings of the last few days.
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“Today, the main task is Mariupol,” Zelensky said in a video message played by Ukrainian agencies. He also said he was doing “everything possible to overcome the resistance of the Russian occupiers”, who surround the port city of half a million people and ban vehicles from entering the site.
“They even block (the work) of the Orthodox Church priests who accompany this shipment with food, water and medicine,” Zelensky said, citing that he sent 100 tons of the most needed items to his citizens. “We understand that it is a very difficult time for the 48 million Ukrainians, but we will win.”
Zelensky also reported that so far nearly 125,000 citizens have been transported from areas of hostilities to safe territory through humanitarian corridors opened by the Kiev government.
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