Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut CavusogluANKARA, Mar 5 Turkey is negotiating the possibility of a corridor through Russia to evacuate citizens from Ukraine, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said. “Today there are territories where a temporary ceasefire has been introduced. «Thousands of our citizens have already been evacuated. Negotiations are underway to create corridors, including through Russia, for evacuation. Today, 400 citizens are expected to be evacuated by buses from various territories of Ukraine,» Cavusoglu said at a press conference with the Azerbaijani Foreign Minister in Baku.
Two Turkish planes are preparing to evacuate citizens from UkraineRussia launched a military operation in Ukraine early in the morning on February 24th. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, the civilian population is not in danger. With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive. But the occupation of Ukraine is out of the question, the President of Russia emphasized.
