Moscow ready to provide humanitarian corridors

Russia says it's ready to provide humanitarian corridors in Ukraine

Russia will declare a "silence regime" and is ready to provide humanitarian corridors in Ukraine at  07:00 GMT, Qazet.az reports according to Russian state media.

They are quoting Russian defence ministry officials as saying this will be done to evacuate civilians from the cities of Kyiv, Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv and Mariupol.

Most of the evacuation routes offered by Moscow are to Russia - a condition previously described as unacceptable by the government in Kyiv. Ukraine has not publicly commented on the new Russian initiative.

Each of several previous evacuation attempts failed, with the warring sides blaming each other.