06.03.2022 (21:00)
Statement of the Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine
Statement of the Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine
(March 6, 2022)
Today, as part of the humanitarian operation, the Russian Federation once again attempted to evacuate civilians from Mariupol, while the routes, time and place of meeting of the humanitarian convoy were worked out in detail and agreed with the Ukrainian side. Russia has fulfilled all the conditions for the creation of a humanitarian corridor.
We are forced to state that the Ukrainian side has not fulfilled its obligations.
According to the results of objective control, including the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, we found that no humanitarian convoys were formed in Mariupol.
Moreover, the Ukrainian authorities, using Internet resources and television, are actively misinforming the residents of Mariupol about the postponement of the evacuation, due to the alleged non-compliance by the Russian side with the promised silence regimes. This is a total deception and betrayal of their people. At the same time, the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine fire at the positions of the Russian Armed Forces at the time specified for the humanitarian corridor.
All these provocations make it clear that the Kiev authorities deliberately evade the implementation of the agreements reached and continue their criminal actions to use the civilian population as a human shield.
In addition, to date, the Ukrainian side categorically rejects any interaction on the evacuation of a large number of people from Kharkiv and Sumy, where thousands of civilians, including foreign states, are being held.
It is reliably known that since the beginning of the special military operation, thousands of people, including foreigners, are ready to leave the territory of Ukraine and go to the Russian Federation, but the Kiev authorities flatly refuse to release them, fearing that the whole truth about the atrocities against civilians by neo-Nazis will become known worldwide.
This information is confirmed by 17 residents of Mariupol, who on March 5 managed to independently, by secret paths along the coast of the Sea of Azov, to leave the city occupied by nationalists.
They said that thousands of people want to leave the city along the humanitarian corridor in the direction of the east, towards the Russian Federation, but the Nazis are severely suppressing any attempts to do this, up to the use of weapons to kill.
The same orders of the Kiev regime have been forwarded and are unquestioningly carried out by neo-Nazis in all settlements of Ukraine, primarily in the cities of Kharkiv and Sumy, blocking the passage of refugees to safe places on the territory of the Russian Federation.
We do not understand why the Western "civilized world" does not react to all these humanitarian atrocities in any way.
In Mariupol, the neo-Nazis of the territorial defence battalions are once again using the tactics of terrorists to conduct combat operations. Hiding behind civilians as a human shield, they place heavy weapons in apartment buildings, while some residents are forcibly kept in houses.
Yesterday, during the evacuation of Indian citizens, nationalists, threatening physical violence with the use of weapons, intimidated foreign citizens who refused to evacuate along unsafe routes towards the western borders of Ukraine.
In order to demoralize civilians and foreigners, reports appeared in the Ukrainian media about the creation of camps by Kiev for citizens who do not support the current regime, as well as people who are not citizens of Ukraine. Radicals carry out ethnic cleansing, break into houses and apartments of the civilian population, check documents on the streets. All persons who do not have Ukrainian passports are taken away by the militants in an unknown direction.
All the necessary conditions have been created in the Russian Federation to welcome refugees. Rest rooms are equipped at checkpoints and temporary accommodation places, hot meals are provided, mobile medical centers are deployed, logistics for departure to the regions of Russia is organized, and their delivery to their homeland is provided for foreign citizens.
In the regions of Russia, temporary accommodation facilities have been increased to 9 thousand. All of them are ready to work individually with citizens arriving from Ukraine.
More than 163 thousand (163,218) people were evacuated from the zones of the special military operation, including 42,729 children, including 6,897 per day, of which 1,133 children.
18,356 units of personal vehicles crossed the state border of the Russian Federation, including 991 units per day.
Federal executive authorities, together with the subjects of Russia, from Kaliningrad to Kamchatka, various public organizations, patriotic movements have already prepared more than 13.5 thousand tons of humanitarian cargo.
The Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia, the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia, Rosreestr and Rosrezerv, Tula, Moscow, Yaroslavl, Belgorod, Voronezh, Kursk and Rostov regions, as well as the Republic of Crimea have been most actively involved in this important work.
557 tons of humanitarian cargo have already been delivered to Ukraine, 80 humanitarian actions have been carried out in 123 settlements of the Zaporozhye, Kiev, Kharkiv and Kherson regions, as well as in the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, including 18 humanitarian actions carried out over the past day, during which 60 tons of basic necessities, medicines and food were transferred to the civilian population of the liberated areas.
As of today, 28 humanitarian actions have been planned and carried out in the Kiev region, Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics, during which 323 tons of basic necessities, medicines and food have been transferred to the civilian population.
