Servicemen of the People's Militia of the DPR MOSCOW, March 5On the 10th day of the special operation of the Russian Federation in Ukraine, the Russian side, in agreement with the Ukrainian side, announced a regime of silence and opened humanitarian corridors for the residents of Mariupol and Volnovakha to leave. The expected date of the third round of talks between Russia and Kyiv has also become known — this is March 7. Gumming corridors and the evacuation of Indian students The silence regime was introduced on Saturday to withdraw civilians from Mariupol and Volnovakha in Ukraine through humanitarian corridors. This became possible thanks to the agreement between the Russian and Ukrainian sides on the humanitarian corridors and withdrawal routes, the RF Ministry of Defense reported.Russia has fulfilled all the conditions for providing humanitarian corridors from MariupolThe adviser to the head of Zelensky's office, after the statement of the Russian Defense Ministry, said that after the opening of the humanitarian corridor, Mariupol will be provided with food and medicine. However, the head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, said that the residents of Mariupol did not know about the humanitarian corridor and that the DPR was making efforts to ensure that residents received information. Later it became known that two buses with 36 residents headed on Saturday from Mariupol to Sakhanka along the humanitarian corridor, accompanied by DNR police. The city council of Mariupol claims that the evacuation of residents will take place in several stages and not in one day, so that everyone can leave. The next stage is the evacuation from Sumy, Kharkov and Kherson. Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Irina Vereshchuk announced the preparation of humanitarian corridors from Sumy, Kharkov and Kherson, and evacuation from the suburbs of Kiev is also planned. Indian students were also evacuated from Kharkov, as well as from the city of Sumy and the village of Pesochin. 
Putin said that Ukraine was offered various options for the demilitarization of the countryNew round of negotiationsOn Saturday evening, the expected date for the third round of negotiations between the delegations of Russia and Kyiv on the Belarusian-Ukrainian border became known. They can pass on March 7, Leonid Slutsky, a member of the Russian delegation at the talks, head of the Duma Committee on International Affairs, said this. Ukrainian media. According to Slutsky, this information may be unreliable.The Russian army took control of seven more settlements in Ukraine. Meanwhile, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba said that he had met with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken on the Ukrainian-Polish border, the parties had «productive» negotiations on future steps. He also announced the possibility of meeting with the Russian colleague Sergei Lavrov in Turkey, if the prospect of negotiations is substantive. Earlier, the press secretary of the ruling Justice and Development Party in Turkey, Omer Celik, said that the Turkish side was ready to hold talks between Russia and Ukraine in Istanbul. NATO does not close the sky, but sends weapons. Kuleba also criticized NATO for refusing to protect the Ukrainian sky in the alliance. He said that NATO is not what the Ukrainians imagined it to be, the position of the alliance does not inspire respect. At the same time, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, spoke about how the NATO and EU countries pumped Kyiv with weapons even before the Russian special operation. Among the supplies, for example, are 2,000 tons of modern weapons, ammunition and protective equipment. London also donated over 2,000 anti-tank weapons to Kiev.The Foreign Ministry told how many weapons arrived in Ukraine before the special operationRussian President Vladimir Putin explained why Moscow would not accept Ukraine's entry into NATO. This would make it possible to support Ukraine in the event of a military conflict: they are conducting an operation in the Donbass, they will climb into the Crimea, the president said. He also denied rumors about the possibility of introducing martial law in the Russian Federation and general mobilization. On Saturday evening, Putin held talks with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett . After meeting with Putin, Bennett phoned Vladimir Zelensky. On Sunday, Putin is scheduled to have telephone conversations with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan. Early in the morning of February 24, Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine. 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 those responsible for crimes against the inhabitants of Donbass. With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, military groups of the DPR and LPR are developing an offensive. At the same time, as the President of Russia emphasized, there is no talk of the occupation of Ukraine.The development of the situation is in the online report >>
