civilians. in return, russia accused ukraine of using civilians as human shields. translation: we are accused of breakin: translation: we are accused of breaking off translation: we are accused of breaking off the translation: we are accused of breaking off the operation - translation: we are accused of breaking off the operation to - breaking off the operation to evacuate people through the humanitarian corridors, but everything is actually quite the contrary. it is the ukrainians that won t agree to our proposals for a ceasefire and won t allow people to exit through these corridors even though we have ready said these national battalions are holding people hostage in these towns. they are like human shields, putting military technology in accommodation blocks. 0ur un correspondent nada tawfik gave more details on the exchanges at the security council meeting. what we have seen time and time again at security council meetings is the ukrainian ambassador relays what is happening o
translation: we are accused of breaking off the operation i to evacuate people through the humanitarian corridors, but everything is actually quite the contrary. it s the ukrainians who won t agree to our proposals to honour ceasefire, and won t allow people to exit through these corridors even though we ve already said that these national battalions are holding people hostage in these towns. they re like human shields, they re putting military technology in accommodation blocks. another chance of session there. tense. our un correspondent nada tawfik gave us more details on the exchanges at the security council meeting. what we ve seen time and time again at security council meetings, as the ukrainian ambassador relays what s happening on the ground, the russian ambassador presents his own version of events that, really, i have to say, quite frankly, nobody else on the council really buys into.
time and time again at security council meetings as the ukrainian ambassador relays what s happening on the ground, the russian ambassador presents his own version of events that really, i have to say quite frankly nobody else on the council really buys into. i mean, we have martin griffiths here, the un humanitarian chief, saying that they have had their first technical meeting with members of the russian ministry of defence, and they are trying to work out a way to allow for the safe passage of humanitarian aid, the safe passage for civilians. and this comes after the secretary general had a conversation on friday with the defence minister of russia, again, trying to see how they can make it so that un organisations on the ground can work to help those most in need. we also heard from the us ambassador to the un, linda thomas greenfield,