Plans and negotiation processes about Mariupol are being developed, but there is no trust in russian negotiators.
This was announced by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in an interview with Ukrainian online media. The full conversation will be published on LB soon.
To be honest, there is no trust in the russian negotiators. We have agreed that there would be a humanitarian corridor, and Turkey and personally President Erdogan would act as mediators. We agreed that he could take away through Berdyansk our wounded and killed, who are in Mariupol. Those who are civilians, first of all, women and children. We agreed that it would be, but at some point, russia refused," he said.
Zelensky said daily communication is being maintained with Ukrainian defenders blocked at the Mariupol plant. The President stressed that the number of enemies is six times more than our forces in this city, and by technique prevails more than 10 times superior.
He added that the occupiers had established several circles to block Mariupol and were massively deporting Ukrainians to the territory temporarily under their control.
"Everything the russians claimed was a lie, that we were not allowing civilians to leave in their direction. First, we don’t control that," he said.
The russians are keeping Mariupol under siege
more than a month. They are deliberately destroying the shelters of civilians, preventing the import of humanitarian aid, stealing it, and preventing evacuations. With the initiatives to facilitate evacuation, except for the President of Turkey, were the French President Emmanuel Macron and the Head of the Greek Foreign Ministry Dendias, who said that he was ready to come personally to the city and to accompany the humanitarian mission there.