Speaking at a joint press conference with Russia’s foreign ministry, Sergei Lavrov, the UN secretary general, António Guterres, said a “violent battle” is underway across Ukraine’s Donbas region with “tremendous death and destruction”, APA reports citing The Guardian.
Guterres said:
"We recognise that we face a crisis in Mariupol. Thousands of civilians are in dire need of live-saving humanitarian assistance, and many of evacuation.
The United Nations is ready to fully mobilize its human and logistical resources to help save lives in Mariupol."
He said his proposal was for a coordinated work of the UN, the International Committee of Red Cross, and Ukrainian and Russian forces to enable “the safe evacuation of the civilians who want to leave” the Azovstal steel plant and Mariupol city “in any direction they choose”.
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