After bombarding Ukraine, Russia said that their military will hold fire and six humanitarian corridors will be opened around Ukrainian cities to allow civilians to escape, reports Al Jazeera citing Russia’s Defence Ministry.
Ukraine rejected the plan to give civilians in several key cities safe passage to Russia and Belarus as ‘immoral’.
“This is a completely immoral story. People’s suffering is used to create the desired television picture,” the spokesman for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said. “These are citizens of Ukraine, they should have the right to evacuate to the territory of Ukraine”, he added.
Kyiv also said that negotiations are taking place with Russia on establishing humanitarian corridors but warned that such escape routes are unlikely to be set up.
Oleksiy Arestovich, an adviser to Zelensky’s chief of staff, said each Ukrainian should be allowed to decide where they want to go. He also advised Ukrainians against evacuating to Russia.
China’s Foreign Minister (FM) said that the country’s Red Cross Society will provide humanitarian aid to Ukraine.
As of yet, more than one million Ukrainians have fled to Poland since the start of the Russian invasion.
