Emmanuel Macron yesterday implored Vladimir Putin to let civilians flee Ukraine’s besieged cities during a marathon call as a second attempt to evacuate Mariupol ended under Russia bombardment.
It had been hoped that 200,000 of the 430,000 residents in the bombed out port city would leave during a nine-hour ceasefire yesterday. But only a few hundred are believed to have made their escape on a day marked by reports of more civilian deaths in Irpin, on the outskirts of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv.
Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, spoke in a televised address to people in Russia, beseeching them to not “keep silent” amid the bloodshed. “ For you, this is a struggle not only for peace in Ukraine, this is a fight for your country,” he said , speaking in Russian. “If you keep silent now, only your poverty will speak for you later. And only repression will answer.” Russians faced a choice “between life and slavery ”.
The International Committee of the Red Cross implored the two sides to renegotiate : “Amid devastating scenes of human suffering in Mariupol, a second attempt today to start evacuating an estimated 200,000 people out of the city came to a halt.
“ The parties should agree between themselves not just in principle but also on the details and parameters.”
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