Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky[/B] said that the evacuation corridors did not work on Wednesday as the Russian military did not stop the bombing.
"We are ready to get people out and send humanitarian aid. But we cannot expose people to shelling on the street," he said in a video posted on Facebook on Thursday.
Zelenksy said residents who previously escaped the besieged southeastern city of Mariupol were being taken to safer areas.
"We are taking Mariupol residents who managed to escape to Berdyansk. We are taking them to Zaporizhzhya. In total, more than 6,000 Mariupol residents were transferred in one day, more than 2,000 of them are children," he said."
However, Zelensky said the Russian army tried to disrupt this movement as well, shooting at the section of the road between Vasilivka and Kamianske in the Zaporizhzhya region. Five Ukrainians were wounded, two of them children, he said.
In the northern town of Chernihiv, Russian forces fired on civilians standing in line for bread, killing 10 people, Zelensky added.
The Ukrainian president said that if Russia's war against his country continues, "Russia's mothers will lose more children than in the war in Afghanistan and Chechnya combined."
At the same time, he clarified Ukraine's positions as negotiations with Russia continue, stressing that his priorities in the talks are "the end of the war, security guarantees, sovereignty, restoration of territorial integrity, real guarantees for our country, real protection for our country."
Today Zelensky is due to address the German parliament, a day after he spoke to members of the US Congress, and said he would "continue to fight for even greater support for Ukraine, for even greater pressure on Russia."
Source: Proto Thema
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