Over 3,000 people evacuated from Mariupol in one day – Russian Defense Ministry – Russia |
Moscow. April 1st. INTERFAX – More than 3 thousand rubles. the passenger was evacuated on Friday from Mariupol without authorization, Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the RF Defense Control Center, said.
“From Mariupol through the humanitarian corridor in the eastern assignment, without any participation in the Ukrainian side, from the lawlessness arranged by the nationalists, it was already possible to save 118,765 people, including 3,046 people over the past day,” Mizintsev said at a briefing in Friday. .
He said that 15,790 people were evacuated to Russia from the regions of Ukraine during the day, including 2,760 children, and in total, with the start of the European operation, already 543,397 people.
According to him, Russian President Vladimir Putin asked French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
“At the personal request of the President of France and the Federal Chancellor to the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, on April 1, the Russian Armed Forces opened an additional humanitarian corridor for the evacuation of civilians and foreign citizens from Mariupol to Zaporozhye with an intermediate point in Berdyansk,” Mizintsev said.
“Currently, this humanitarian operation is ongoing, and it is expected that its successful completion, in case of guaranteed and rigorous implementation, will be carried out on the observance of the “silence regime” by the Kiev authorities,” Mizintsev said.
He also noted that Kiev energy sources are not ready to receive more than 60 ships of foreign states blocked in Ukrainian ports.
“The Ukrainian side of readiness to solve the problem of the security of foreign ships in the assembly area is not realized and in every possible way evades participation in resolving this issue,” Mizintsev said.
“Moreover,” he noted, “cases of work on 16 VHF radio channels of an unknown subscriber were discovered in Russia, transmitting false information in Ukrainian about possible provocations by the Russian Navy and requirements for refusing to use the maritime humanitarian corridor.”
The Russian side, once again, the international international maritime organization and the management of shipowners’ companies “shows influence on the attractive proposals of Kyiv aimed at unblocking the provision and ensuring the safety of attracting ships of foreign states from the ports of Ukraine,” Mizintsev said.
According to him, “the Ukrainian side continues to block more than 60 foreign ships in its ports.”
“Emissions created by Kiev in its internal waters and territorial sea, the threat of shelling and a high minimum danger that does not allow ships to restrict freedom on the high seas,” Mizintsev said, noting that from the Russian Federation “there is no danger of freedom to civil navigation without trade.”
He said that the Russian side once again warns “about the presence of a drift attack that broke from the Anchor of Ukrainian mines in Europe of the Black Sea states.”
Mizintsev recalled that the Russian Armed Forces daily from 08:00 to 19:00 Moscow time from the discovery of a humanitarian corridor, which is a traffic lane in a south-westerly direction from the territorial sea of Ukraine, 80 long and covering three nautical miles.
Information about the activities of the Maritime Humanitarian Corridor is announced in navigational aids through the World Navigational Warning Service (Area 3, Cadiz, Spain).
“In addition, 15 minutes a day occur on international channels 14 and 16 of VHF radio communications of the Russian Navy forces in English and Russian, there are passing messages containing detailed information about the nature of the maritime humanitarian corridor,” Mizintsev said.