INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Ukraine on Tuesday accused Russia of violating a humanitarian corridor aimed at enabling civilians to leave the beleaguered southern port
city of Mariupol."The enemy has launched an attack heading exactly at the humanitarian corridor," the defense ministry said on Facebook,
Ukraine's foreign ministry."Russian forces are now shelling the humanitarian corridor from Zaporizhzhia to Mariupol
8 trucks + 30 buses ready to deliver humanitarian aid to Mariupol and to (evacuate) civilians to Zaporizhzhia," it added.Kyiv said it had
carried out de-mining activities along the 250-kilometer (150-mile) route to Zaporizhzhia in the northwest to allow the evacuation of the
evacuations involving some 300,000 civilians from Mariupol have failed on several occasions in recent days, with both Kyiv and Moscow
blaming the other side for the failures.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said there had been "guarantees" on evacuating Mariupol
civilians but that these "did not work."
