The official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Igor Konashenkov, spoke about the course of the special operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine.
The representative of the defense department said that official Kyiv continues to categorically reject humanitarian corridors towards Russia. According to him, the Ukrainian side agreed on two of the ten gum corridors proposed by Russia from Kyiv, Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkov and Mariupol.
“The Russian side agreed with the four humanitarian routes proposed by Ukraine from Izyum, Energodar, Volnovakha and in the Zhytomyr direction. During the day, more than 23,000 people expressed a desire to evacuate to Russia from the territory of the special military operation,” Konashenkov said.
The representative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation noted that 34.5 thousand people were evacuated from its various regions, as well as from the DPR and LPR, without the participation of Ukraine in a day. In addition, 1,671 tons of humanitarian cargo have already been delivered to Ukraine, 212 humanitarian actions have been carried out.
“Mariupol is blocked, all bridges and approaches to the city are destroyed, roads are mined by nationalists. More than 7,000 citizens from 21 states remain hostages of Ukrainian neo-Nazis. Also, the Kiev authorities forbade mayors of cities from contacts with the Russian side, those who disagree are shot,” Konashenkov summed up.