The humanitarian corridor wanted by the UN (coordinated by the CRI and the Russian and Ukrainian forces) yesterday allowed the evacuation of many civilians trapped in the Azovstal steel plant, in the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol. Zelensky on twitter reports at least one hundred people: "the evacuation of civilians from Azovstal has begun. The first group of about 100 people is already heading towards the controlled area. Tomorrow we will meet them in Zaporizhzhia. Grateful to our team. Now, together with the UN, they are working on the evacuation of other civilians from the plant ".
The Azovstal steel complex is the last stand of Ukrainian forces in Mariupol after a weeks-long assault by the Russian army. Several hundred Ukrainian soldiers and civilians took refuge in the undergrounds that date back to the Soviet era. Meanwhile, according to Mariupol Mayor Vadym Boychenko, the Russian army has killed twice as many people who were massacred by the Nazis during World War II.
"Over the span of two years, the Nazis killed around 10.000 civilians in Mariupol. The Russian occupiers killed 20.000 in two months. Over 40.000 people were forcibly displaced“, Said the mayor, quoted by the city council. "It is one of the worst genocides of a peaceful population in modern history ", he added.
Meanwhile, the very firm position of the president of the Duma is recorded in Russia Vyacheslav Volodin, according to which Russia should respond symmetrically to the freezing of Russian assets by "unfriendly nations" by confiscating their assets located in Russia, ie companies. So she tweeted: "it is right to reflect the measures towards those companies in Russia whose owners come from non-friendly countries where similar measures have been adopted: confiscating those properties ".