President Vladimir Zelensky announced the impossibility of currently military unlocking the city of Mariupol in the Donetsk region, while noting that to liberate Ukrainian military and civilians located on the territory of the Azovstal plant, everything is possible.
“Make everything we do,” said Zelensky in an interview with the French TV channel BFM TV, his words leads Interfax-Ukraine.
“As for our army, we do not give these occupied 120 km today, to reach the military unlocking of the city of Mariupol. We can not do this today. Humanitarian corridors – we agree and open up, and some people go away from there But then the number of thousands of thousands of which I told you – they are still blocked and until Russia gives these people the opportunity to get out of this captivity, “the head of the Ukrainian state added.
According to him, not only the military, but also civilians, including children and people of old age, are blocked on Azovstal: “People who are at the factory today and do not grab this small part of the destroyed city – these are our and border guards , and the National Guardians, and the police, there are about a thousand local residents, women who are hiding together with children who are just afraid to go out, because the locals who went out, they killed by the shells … everything was destroyed, 95-98% of all buildings … There is a bombardment of aircraft, defeat artillery and rockets. And they (the Russian army) are shooting everywhere, throughout the city, and therefore a large number of people – they are afraid even to go out (from shelters). “
Zelensky also stressed that a number of Mariupol residents were evacuated not to the territory controlled by Ukraine, but were exported by Russian military to the occupied RF part of the Donetsk region.
Commenting on the appeal of the military blocked at the factory that they can hold out there except a matter of hours, the president said: “The fact that the question goes on the clock is true, because we do not know how many hours or days they can There hold out … This is more like a war, but for such a terrorist operation from the Russian Federation against Mariupol and the inhabitants of this city. “