Destroyed houses in MariupolMOSCOW, Apr 17 Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Iryna Vereshchuk said that on Sunday, humanitarian corridors for the evacuation of civilians will not be open. «…Unfortunately, today we do not open humanitarian corridors. We are making every effort to make humanitarian corridors work again as quickly as possible,» Vereshchuk wrote in her Telegram channel. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. 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 and On March 25, they completed the main tasks of the first stage — they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
