Refugees on the road from Mariupol. Archival photoMOSCOW, March 20The Russian Defense Ministry is inviting representatives of the UN, the OSCE, the Red Cross to accompany a humanitarian operation to withdraw residents from Mariupol, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the Russian National Defense Control Center, said on Sunday. For the strict fulfillment of this task, in addition, we are sending an official appeal to the UN, the OSCE, the International Committee of the Red Cross and other international organizations, whose representatives we invite to accompany the practical activities of this humanitarian operation, as they say, directly on the «ground», that is, in the city Mariupol, while necessarily as part of humanitarian convoys, both Russian and Ukrainian sides,» he said. a person from dangerous regions of Ukraine
