Russia has opened “humanitarian corridors” so folks will be evacuated from Kyiv and 4 different Ukrainian cities: Cherhihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv and Mariupol, the Interfax information company quoted the Russian defence ministry as saying on Tuesday.
The defence ministry added that Russian forces in Ukraine had launched a “silent regime” from 0700 GMT, Interfax reported.
On the identical time, the pinnacle of the U.N. refugee company has stated that after the primary wave of refugees from Ukraine there may be more likely to be a second wave consisting of extra susceptible refugees.
“If the struggle continues we’ll begin seeing folks that don’t have any assets and no connections,” UNHCR head Filippo Grandi advised a information convention on Tuesday.
“That will probably be a extra complicated state of affairs to handle for European nations going ahead, and there’ll should be much more solidarity by everyone in Europe and past,” he stated.
(Reuters)