An employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the DPR and refugees from Mariupol near the village of Rybatskoye, Mangush district, Donetsk region. Archival photoMOSCOW, April 15 The Ukrainian side has again not declared a single humanitarian corridor towards Russia out of nine declared for the current day in the Zaporozhye and Donetsk directions, said the head of the National Center for Defense Control of the Russian Federation, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev. «The Ukrainian side has declared nine corridors in the Zaporozhye and Donetsk directions for the current day. None of them are in the direction of Russia,» he said. » /> More than 23,000 people were evacuated to Russia from Ukraine and DonbasAccording to the general, the Russian Federation is ready to deploy humanitarian corridors in any other directions as soon as possible and ensure the safe evacuation of civilians. Mizintsev said that Russia is opening an additional route from Mariupol to Berdyansk and further in two directions — by land or by sea. 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 genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine.» According to the Russian Defense Ministry, as of March 25, the Armed Forces 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.
