Russian U.N. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia mentioned that Russian authorities have proposed a cease-fire for Tuesday, CBS News’ Pamela Falk reported. The proposed cease-fire, which can start at 10 a.m. Moscow time, will permit for the opening of humanitarian corridors to evacuate residents from Kyiv, Chernigov, Sumy and Mariupol, Russia mentioned, in line with The Related Press.
Nebenzia took the ground on the finish of a U.N. Safety Council assembly on the humanitarian disaster in Ukraine on Monday to make the announcement.
“This proposal does not have any calls for concerning the residents being despatched essentially to Russia, into Russian territory,” he mentioned.
“There’s additionally evacuation supplied in direction of Ukrainian cities to the west of Kyiv, and in the end it will likely be the selection of the folks themselves the place they wish to be evacuated to,” Nebenzia mentioned.
However in Kyiv, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of violating earlier humanitarian hall agreements, saying fleeing Ukrainians confronted “Russian tanks, Russian Grad rockets, Russian mines.”
“They even mined the roads that have been the agreed routes for taking meals and medication to the folks, to the kids, of Mariupol,” Zelensky mentioned in what has change into a each day video deal with near midnight.
Throughout talks on Monday earlier than Nebenzia’s deal with, the Russians proposed evacuation routes resulting in Russia and its ally Belarus, relatively than to areas of western Ukraine that stay peaceable.
“It is simply cynicism,” Zelenskyy mentioned. By opening a small hall to Russia, he mentioned, Moscow is trying just for a propaganda victory.
-CBS/The Related Press
