Ukrainian war, “humanitarian corridors to Russia”: anger in Kiev

On the twelfth day of the war between Russia and Ukraine, Moscow announced the opening of humanitarian corridors for the evacuation of civilians from besieged cities. Some corridors appear to involve evacuation to Russian cities and Belarus, reports the Guardian. According to information published by the Ria Novosti agency, the corridor from Kiev, for example, will lead to Belarus and from Kharkiv civilians will have only one corridor to Russia. From Mariupol and Sumy the corridors will lead to Ukrainian cities and Russia. According to the Russian defense ministry, people can also be flown to Russia from Kiev. Read also According to a spokesman for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zekensky these corridors are “totally immoral”. “This is a completely immoral story. The suffering of people is used to create a television image that you want,” the spokesperson said in a written message. “These are Ukrainian citizens, they should have the right to evacuate to the territory of Ukraine”, he added. The Russian military claims to have ordered a “ceasefire” after an appeal to that effect by French President Emmanuel Macron, who yesterday had a new telephone conversation with Russian leader Vladimir Putin. But according to what the French presidency specifies to Bfmtv, Macron “has neither asked for nor obtained corridors to Russia after his meeting” with the Russian leader yesterday. Macron “is urgently asking for civilians to go and allow aid to be delivered” and, according to the Elysée, “is another way for Putin to push his narrative.”