No humanitarian corridors for third consecutive day

No humanitarian corridors for third consecutive day

Ukraine says there will be no humanitarian corridors to evacuate civilians trapped in conflict areas for a third consecutive day because there has been no agreement with Russia Qazet.az reports.

Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk says intensive shelling continues in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, where officials say Russia has launched a major offensive after being thwarted in efforts to capture the capital, Kyiv.

Vereshchuk says Russians "refuse to open a corridor" to evacuate civilians from the besieged port city of Mariupol towards Berdyansk.

She says "difficult negotiations" have been taking place to try to arrange humanitarian corridors in the southern region of Kherson and in the Kharkiv region of eastern Ukraine.