UPDATE: Mariupol postpones planned evacuation of its civilians after the Ukrainian city says Russian forces failed to adhere to a temporary cease-fire announced hours earlier.
A Ukrainian city that has been besieged by Russian forces said it was postponing a planned evacuation of its civilians Saturday after Russia failed to adhere to a cease-fire announced hours earlier.port city, Mariupol
Russia has consistently denied targeting civilians and the country's defense ministry said no one had made use of the corridors and and accused Ukrainian “nationalists” of preventing civilians from leaving, the RIA state news agency reported.Russia and Ukraine announce limited cease-fire to let civilians leave two besieged cities.
After Russia’s ministry of defense announced a cease-fire starting at 2 a.m. E.T. Saturday, Ukrainian officials confirmed the news. Ukraine’s deputy prime minister, Iryna Vereschuk, also accused Russian forces of “shelling Volnovakha with heavy weapons” in a video posted to Telegram. She added that there was ongoing fighting on the route between Mariupol and Zaporizhzhia.Her comments came ahead of a planned video conference briefing by Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to U.S. senators on Saturday, as Congress considers a request for $10 billion in emergency funding for humanitarian aid and security needs.
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