Authorities within the metropolis have put the loss of life rely within the metropolis at over 2,000.
Brussels:
President Emmanuel Macron stated Friday France was working with Turkey and Greece on a “humanitarian operation” to evacuate individuals from the devastated Ukrainian metropolis of Mariupol below assault by Russian forces.
“We’re going to work with Turkey and Greece to launch a humanitarian operation to evacuate all those that want to depart Mariupol,” Macron stated after an EU summit in Brussels.
“I’ll have a brand new dialogue with (Russian) President Vladimir Putin throughout the subsequent 48 to 72 hours to work out the small print and safe the modalities,” he stated.
The French chief stated he hoped to “be capable of contain the utmost variety of stakeholders on this operation”.
He stated that he wished to be “able” to conduct the evacuation “within the subsequent few days”.
Macron stated that French officers had spoken Friday to the mayor of Mariupol and that the 150,000 remaining residents had been left trapped in “dramatic situations”.
Authorities within the metropolis have put the loss of life rely within the metropolis at over 2,000, and stated Friday {that a} single strike final week on a theatre the place civilians had been sheltering was feared to have killed 300 individuals.
Russia has made the port metropolis a serious focus of its brutal onslaught on Ukraine because it tries to hyperlink up the annexed Crimea peninsula with Moscow-controlled areas within the east.
The Kremlin’s devastating assault on Mariupol has drawn parallels with the bombardments by Russian forces that flattened Chechen capital Grozny and Syria’s Aleppo.
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