Moscow: The Russian Ministry of Defense on Sunday said Ukraine had not fulfilled its commitment in connection with organizing humanitarian corridors to help people leave Mariupol.
The ministry said that Russia made another effort to evacuate civilians from Mariupol on Sunday.
“Russia creates all conditions to establish a humanitarian corridor. We must conclude that the Ukrainian team does not fulfill its obligations,” the ministry was quoted as saying by the Sputnik news agency.
The United Nations considers the humanitarian corridor to be one key form of a temporary pause of armed conflict.
Russia and Ukraine have agreed to organize humanitarian corridors to evacuate civilians in the second round talks in Belarus on March 4.
Russia stated that Ukrainian forces prevent people from leaving the city on Saturday, while Ukrainian authorities blamed the delay in Russian forces violating the agreed ceasefire.