Moscow says ‘terrible humanitarian catastrophe’ unfolding in city and offers safe passages to fighters who lay down arms
Russia has given Ukrainian forces a 5am deadline to lay down their arms in the eastern port city of Mariupol where Moscow said a “terrible humanitarian catastrophe” was unfolding.
“Lay down your arms,” Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, the director of the Russian National Defense Management Center, said on Sunday in a briefing distributed by the defence ministry. “A terrible humanitarian catastrophe has developed,” he said. “All who lay down their arms are guaranteed safe passage out of Mariupol.”
