Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for the Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine Iryna Vereschuk has said that Kyiv is ready to do anything to open a humanitarian corridor to evacuate civilians and Ukrainian military from the Azovstal factory in Mariupol, which is besieged by the Russians.
Mothers trapped in the tunnels deep under the Mariupol steel plant have pleaded for an evacuation route to be opened for them and their children in a video posted Saturday by Ukrainian armed forces.
Ukraine on Saturday announced there were humanitarian evacuation corridors opened around Mariupol, but warned Moscow was running “parallel” routes to Russia.