French President Emmanuel Macron has accused his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin of hypocrisy and cynicism. reports AFP.
The reason is that Moscow announced that will open humanitarian corridors for the evacuation of civilians from several Ukrainian cities, but only in Russia or Belarus.
All this is frivolous, this is moral and political cynicism, which I consider unacceptableMacron stressed in an interview with LCI television.
He defined as “hypocritical” promises to protect civilians so that they can escape only to Russia.
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Russia ceases fire to evacuate Kyiv, Mariupol, Kharkiv and Sumy
Plans call for an evacuation to Russia and Belarus
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Russia and Ukraine have been twice in recent days announced green corridors for evacuation from Mariupol and Volnovakha, which, however, did not work in practice, with both sides accusing each other of obstructing them. Yesterday it was reported that at evacuation of Irpen also killed children.
According to the statement of Russia’s armed forces declare a green corridor at the request of French President Emmanuel Macron addressed to Russian leader Vladimir Putin, who had a long phone conversation yesterday.
Although it was announced today that a ceasefire will be introduced in the disputed cities Kyiv, Mariupol, Kharkiv and Sumiit later became clear that the corridors were never opened.
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Russia has once again accused Ukrainians of sabotaging green corridors
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