Russia denies information that it does not allow humanitarian corridors for evacuation from Ukraine
20220321 15:24:33 / National Radio News
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Russian Presidency Spokesman Dmitry Peskov called statements about the lack of humanitarian corridors for the evacuation of civilians from Ukraine a lie.
Peskov commented that the allegations that Russian troops are not letting anyone out of the cities are an absolute lie, noting that his country’s military provides humanitarian corridors but people do not use them because Ukrainian nationalists do not provide them themselves To grant access.
Likewise, the Krelin spokesman called on international organizations to put pressure on the Ukrainian authorities to demand that nationalists not hide behind the population as human shields.
The head of the Russian National Defense Center, ColonelGeneral Mijaíl Mízintsev, for his part, has blamed units of Ukrainian nationalists for the serious humanitarian situation in the city of Mariúpol.
Mizintsev commented that the radicals, desperate and furious, realizing that Kyiv cannot help them, have spread mass terror in the Mariupol neighborhoods, which they still control.
At the same time, Mízintsev cited reliable information with evidence of the terrible atrocities committed by militiamen, driven insane by desperation.
The colonelgeneral stressed that the information received by radio listeners among the nationalists and their superiors in the capital Kyiv reveals the anger they feel towards the central authorities for abandoning them.
At the same time, the nationalists are forced to strictly obey the order to endure to the death and have already received the status of martyrs of Mariupol, according to the report of the head of Russia’s National Defense Management Center.
Referring to the course of the military offensive, Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashénkov reported today that Russian forces attacked a military installation at the Nóvaya Liubomirka military compound in the early hours of Monday.
According to Konashenkov, the facility was a training center for foreign mercenaries and Ukrainian nationalist formations, and more than 80 of them died as a result of cruise missile fire.
Konashenkov also noted that during the night the Russian plane destroyed a total of 44 military objects, including the ammunition dump of a Ukrainian mechanized brigade.
The senior military chief denounced that Ukrainian nationalists carried out a “planned provocation” at a chemical plant in the city of Sumy early Monday morning, about which Russian authorities had previously warned.
Konashénkov cited a leak of ammonia, a toxic compound, at the factory and explained that there was no threat to Sumy residents because the air mass was not moving toward the city.
The spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry recalled that on March 19 the same agency officially warned that Ukrainian nationalists had mined the Sumy chemical plant in a provocation and to accuse Moscow of the alleged use of chemical weapons.
Igor Konashenkov stressed that Russian forces have not planned or are carrying out an attack on Ukrainian facilities storing or producing toxic substances.
At the diplomatic level, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said he had said “absolutely no” to a European Union envoy seeking Islamabad’s support against Moscow for its military operation in Ukraine.
Khan felt Western countries were violating the protocol by making the request, and praised neighboring India for its independent foreign policy favorable to his own nation, while refusing to bow to Western sanctions against Russia.
The Prime Minister of Pakistan remarked that his foreign policy will favor the people of his country and he will not bow to anyone nor allow his nation to bow.