Carian mengenai topik iryna-vereshchuk

Vereshchuk said, given the catastrophic humanitarian situation in Mariupol, this is where Ukraine will focus its efforts on today.

Timbalan Perdana Menteri Iryna Vereshchuk menuntut Majlis Keselamatan PBB menubuhkan pasukan khas bagi mengelakkan kejadian berulang.

Russian forces were "militarising" the exclusion zone around the station, Iryna said.

Zelensky also accused Russian forces of firing on humanitarian aid convoys and targeting women and children in evacuation corridors.

Capturing Mariupol would help Russian forces secure a land corridor to the Crimea peninsula, which Moscow annexed from Ukraine in 2014.

Vereshchuk also said Russia's armed forces were preventing humanitarian supplies reaching residents of the southern city of Kherson.

Vereshchuk said efforts to reach Mariupol with humanitarian supplies continued to fail.

Putin's war in Ukraine enters its third week as hundreds of thousands of civilians remained trapped in Ukrainian cities.

Ukraine will try to evacuate civilians through six "humanitarian corridors", including from the besieged southern port city of Mariupol.

Russian forces will stop firing and are ready to provide humanitarian corridors so people can leave Kyiv and four other cities.

Civilians will start leaving the besieged Ukrainian city of Sumy today under an agreement with Russia on "humanitarian corridor".

Russia said that its forces would stop firing around two Ukrainian cities to allow civilians to leave.