INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Russian leader Vladimir Putin in a telephone call with the French president blamed Kyiv for failed civilian evacuations from the key
Ukrainian port city of Mariupol which is surrounded by Russian troops, the Kremlin said Sunday.Putin "drew attention to the fact that Kyiv
still does not fulfil agreements reached on this acute humanitarian issue," the Kremlin said in a statement, after two agreements to
evacuate Mariupol in south-eastern Ukraine fell through following allegations of ceasefire breaches.Putin said "Ukrainian nationalists"
prevented civilians and foreign citizens from leaving the port city of Mariupol and neighbouring Volnovakha on Saturday despite a ceasefire
President Emmanuel Macron.Putin also assured Macron of the "physical and nuclear safety" of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant that was captured
by Russian forces.He also said Russian troops were in control of Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear power plant, which is encased in a giant
sarcophagus following an explosion in 1986 -- the worst nuclear accident in history."All this is being done in order to exclude the
