Moscow sets its conditions.
Russia said on Thursday that it would open humanitarian corridors every day to allow Ukrainians fleeing the fighting to reach its territory, while Kiev is calling for corridors allowing the evacuation of civilians inside Ukraine.
"We officially announce that humanitarian corridors for the Russian Federation will now be opened unilaterally, without coordination, every day from 10 a.m. (8 a.m. in France)," a senior Russian Defense Ministry official said in a statement. , Mikhail Mizintsev.
Russia says it has evacuated “more than 187,000 people” to its country
"We guarantee total security in the territories controlled by the Russian armed forces", specified Mikhaïl Mizintsev, who explained that the corridors which would go "in other directions" will be the subject of negotiations on a case-by-case basis with the authorities. Ukrainians.
Russia also calls on the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the United Nations to "work on the spot with the Ukrainian authorities to inform the population of this initiative".
According to Mikhail Mizintsev, Moscow has already evacuated "more than 187,000 people" to Russia, a figure that cannot be independently verified.
With many civilians still stuck in towns surrounded by the Russian military, three recent rounds of talks between Russian and Ukrainian negotiators have resulted in several local ceasefires and the opening of humanitarian corridors to evacuate civilians of surrounded towns.