Ukraine: Russia, Ukraine agree on safe corridor – Times of India

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Mykola Tochitsky (clockwise Rome left), Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov, Head of the Ukrainian Servant of the People’s Faction David Arkhamia, Adviser to the Office of the President of Ukraine Mykhailo Podoliak, Russian Ambassador to Belarus Boris Gryzlov, Russian Leonid Slutsky, Chairman of the International Affairs Committee of the State Duma, aide of the Russian President and Head of the Russian Delegation Vladimir Medinsky, Deputy Minister of Defense Alexander Fomin and Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko Belvezhskaya take part in the Russian-Ukrainian talks in Pucha. National Park, close to the Polish-Belarusian border, N Belarus, Monday. (File photo: AP)

KYIV: Safe corridors intended for civilians to escape Russian attack Ukraine It could open on Tuesday, officials on both sides said, although previous attempts to establish evacuation routes failed amid fresh attacks and it was unclear how big the operation would be if it did happen. Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Irina Vereshchuk Said on Tuesday that the two sides agreed on a ceasefire from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Ukraine time (0700-1900.) GMT) to evacuate civilians from the eastern city of Sumi.
The first convoy with evacuated citizens in buses or private cars is to leave at 10 a.m. (0800 GMT) on the same route towards the city of Ukraine. Poltava,
She said that Russia’s Defense Ministry has agreed to this in a letter. international red cross,
He said foreign students from India and China were also among those expelled from Sumi.
He said the corridor would also be used to deliver humanitarian aid to Sumi.
He reiterated that Russian proposals to evacuate civilians in Russia and Belarus were unacceptable. He did not elaborate on the possibility of evacuating Ukrainians towards western Ukraine.