Refugees getting ready to board a bus on the Zaporozhye Highway in Mariupol MOSCOW, Apr 2 humanitarian aid from Zaporozhye due to the actions of the International Committee of the Red Cross could not get to Mariupol on time on April 1 and 2, said Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation. «On April 1, 2022, a humanitarian convoy consisting of 10 buses, accompanied International Committee of the Red Cross left Zaporozhye for the city of Mariupol with a significant delay from the planned schedule. On the route, employees of the International Committee of the Red Cross made unintentional stops, on fixed cars with the symbols of the ICRC, broke away from the main column, left in an unknown direction, and then returned, » — said Mizintsev at a briefing. As a result of such unorganized actions of the colony she was unable to arrive in Mariupol, by the end of April 1 she reached only the intermediate point (Berdyansk). «On April 2, 2022, the second part of the humanitarian convoy, consisting of 15 buses, for unknown reasons, also left Zaporozhye very late and has not even arrived at the moment to an intermediate point (the city of Berdyansk). We draw the attention of the International Committee of the Red Cross to the inadmissibility of destructive actions when organizing the evacuation of refugees,» the general emphasized.
