Ukraine accuses Russia of violating an evacuation corridor aimed at enabling civilians to leave the beleaguered southern port city of Mariupol.
“The enemy has launched an attack heading exactly at the humanitarian corridor,” the defense ministry says on Facebook, adding the Russian army “did not let children, women and elderly people leave the city.”
Ukrainian foreign ministry spokesperson Oleg Nikolenko tells the BBC that Russian forces are attacking the corridor between Mariupol and Zaporizhzhia.
Nikolenko says eight trucks and 30 buses were taking humanitarian aid into Mariupol and the vehicles were then to be used to evacuate civilians from Mariupol back to Zaporizhzhia.
The evacuation corridor from Mariupol was announced hours after Ukraine said civilians would begin evacuating from the northeastern city of Sumy.
Ukraine has accused Russia of reneging on previous escape route agreements by bombarding them, or by only guaranteeing routes into Russia or Belarus.
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