The situation in Mariupol. File photoMOSCOW, April 7More than 6.4 thousand foreigners remain as human shields held hostage by Ukrainian nationalists, and 67 foreign ships are also blocked in Ukraine, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation, said at a briefing on Thursday. «Ukrainian nationalists continue to hold them hostage in as a «human shield» of 6,444 foreign citizens from 15 states. In addition, the Ukrainian side continues to block 67 foreign ships in its ports,» Mizintsev said. mine danger in inland waters and the territorial sea. «This was confirmed by the shelling on April 5, 2022 by units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine of the Turkish vessel Azburg blocked in the port of Mariupol with a Ukrainian crew on board,» Mizintsev said.
The decision to give artillery to the defense forces will plunge Ukraine into chaos, Pushilin said. He recalled that the Russian Armed Forces daily from 8.00 to 19.00 Moscow time open a maritime humanitarian corridor — a safe lane in the south-west direction from the territorial sea of Ukraine with a length of 80 and a width of 3 nautical miles. the party does not confirm its readiness to ensure the safety of the exit of foreign ships to the assembly area and in every possible way evades interaction with the International Maritime Organization on resolving this issue, continuing to use ships and crews blocked in their ports as a human shield, said the head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation. once again we call on the leadership of shipowners to put pressure on official Kyiv to immediately take measures aimed at unblocking and ensuring the safety of the exit of ships of foreign states from the ports of Ukraine,» he added.
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