Russia-Ukraine war: Putin admits to Guterres that the situation in Mariupol is “tragic”

The Russian President, Vladimir Putinadmitted today that the situation in the Ukrainian city of Mariupolbrutally besieged for weeks by the Russian Army, is “tragic” when meeting with the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres.

“There the situation is difficult and, it may be, even tragic,” he said. Putin during the meeting held in the Kremlin.

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Putin stressed that in the telephone conversation held on Tuesday with the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, he blurted out that in Mariupol “military actions take place”.

“There are no military actions there. They are finished”, iHe insisted, recalling that almost 1,300 Ukrainian soldiers laid down their arms and surrendered.

He stressed that the steel mill Azovstalthe last bastion of resistance where some thousand civilians and an undetermined number of combatants are refugees, is “completely isolated”.

“I have given the order not to carry out any assault action,” he pointed.

In addition, he stressed that the Russian Army has asked the combatants in Azovstal that they surrender and recalled that with the soldiers of Mariúpol who surrendered “nothing has happened”.

“It is a crime to retain civilians as human shields, if there are any,” he claimed.

At the same time, Putin rejected that, as Guterres said, the humanitarian corridors opened by Russia do not work.

“You have been misinformed. Do they work. From Mariupol More than 100,000 have come out with our help. Some 130,000 or 140,000 have left. And they can go wherever they want,” he said.

In this regard, Guterres was willing to mobilize the logistical and human resources of the United Nations to alleviate the suffering of civilians in Mariupol, located in the Donetsk region.

Guterres also called on Russia to solve its problems with Ukraine exclusively within the framework of the UN. and called the current Russian military campaign in Ukraine an “invasion”.

Source: Elcomercio

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