Matty Burnhart, Knitted News01.05.22 17:13 L. Benisan Tishpev
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The UN announces that it has begun an operation that many have been waiting for to evacuate civilians from the ironworks in the besieged city of Mariupol.
As you may recall, about 100,000 people are in the besieged city, including about 1,000 who take shelter in the Azobel factory, along with another 2,000 Ukrainian fighters, in what has become a kind of local “Masada”. The factory is the last line that Ukrainian soldiers still manage to hold in a city that has fallen almost entirely to the Russians.
UNHCR spokesman Saviano Abreu told the Associated Press that the operation to rescue civilians from the plant was carried out in collaboration with a Red Cross committee and officials in the Russian-Ukrainian administration.
Will the Russians contain the fire?
Similar to previous attempts to rescue civilians from battle zones in Ukraine, the success of the operation depends on the willingness of the Russians to lay down their weapons at a number of checkpoints at the exit from the city. In the past, the Russians have promised several times to allow the opening of humanitarian corridors, but have not stopped firing at the moment of truth. As a result, many civilians were killed and were unable to escape.
The war in southern and eastern Ukraine brings the forces to fight from village to village, and to civilians affected by the many bombings that reach their doorstep.
The Americans promise to continue with the aid
The UN announcement comes after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Kiev today and met with President Vladimir Zalansky. This is the most senior figure in the US administration who has visited Ukraine since the beginning of the war, after the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of State have already visited there.
Zlansky posted on his Twitter page a video from his meeting with Pelosi, which was also joined by Congressmen Jim McGovern, Gregory Mix, Adam Schiff Barbara Lee Bill Keating and Jason Cross.
“When we return to the United States, we will continue to do whatever it takes to help Ukraine defend its and the world’s democracy,” Pelosi said at the end of the meeting. $ 33 billion in its war in Russia. Biden said approval of this request by lawmakers is “critical.”
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