Saturday 5 March opens with the announcement of the truce by the Russian Defense Ministry, in order to allow the opening of humanitarian corridors. The news, relaunched by the Interfax agency shortly after 7, stated that the truce starts from 10 am Moscow time: 8 am in Italy.
In particular, the corridors will have to be used for the exit of civilians from Mariupol and Volnovakha, as “agreed with the Ukrainian side” the Ministry of Defense says.
The context continues to remain extremely difficult, with fighting continuing in various parts of Ukraine, Mariupol under siege, clashes around Kiev and Hostomel airport and the advance of Russian forces towards the second largest nuclear power plant. of Ukraine. I am at “about twenty miles (32 km)”. The American ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield denounced it during the night, without indicating the name of the plant. According to Energoatom, the Ukrainian supervisory body for nuclear power plants, the second largest plant in the country is that of Yuzhnoukrainsk, in the Mykolaiv region, in southern Ukraine. The other night, Russian forces attacked the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.