The flag of the International Committee of the Red Cross in the village of Luganskaya. File photoMOSCOW, Mar 27Member of the Verkhovna Rada from the Servant of the People faction, head of the parliamentary committee on health issues of Ukraine Mikhail Radutsky wrote an open appeal to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and urged not to recognize humanitarian corridors to Russia as legal and to abandon the idea of opening an office in Rostov-on- Don, calling this step «unacceptable.» «According to the information available to the Ukrainian side, the International Committee of the Red Cross intends to open an office in the city of Rostov-on-Don … these actions of the International Committee of the Red Cross are unacceptable,» the appeal published on the page reads Verkhovna Rada on Twitter.The Red Cross is ready to assist on the issue of humanitarian corridors in Ukraine Earlier, ICRC President Peter Maurer said in an interview with RIA Novosti that the organization is discussing with the Russian Red Cross an increase in support for refugees from Ukraine who arrive on Russian territory. He also stated that the ICRC had sent a request to open its office in Rostov-on-Don “in order to improve our work in the Donbass and other parts of Ukraine that are under the control of the RF Armed Forces.” Earlier, Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Irina Vereshchuk urged Russia to agree to opening of gum corridors with the departure of people to Ukrainian territory. Kyiv opposed the opening of humanitarian corridors with the departure of people to Russia. Earlier, the RF Ministry of Defense stated that all information on the results of humanitarian actions is published daily on the official website of the department, as well as current routes of humanitarian corridors are presented. Against the backdrop of hostilities in a large number of cities and villages in Ukraine, a humanitarian catastrophe is emerging. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation lays responsibility for this on the Kiev authorities, who refuse to coordinate the work of humanitarian corridors, as well as local nationalists, in some cases, according to the military department, holding civilians as human shields.
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