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Russian Perspective: Humanitarian Crisis roundup
2022-03-11
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[REGNUM] A very difficult humanitarian situation has developed near Mariupol in the villages of Zarya, Granitnoye, Priovrazhnoye, Vodyanoye. On March 11, REGNUM was informed about this by one of the volunteers in the DPR, who visited the outskirts of Mariupol.

"People have run out of food and no gas. To the advice to build stoves in the yards and cook food for them, they answer that they simply have nothing to cook," said the volunteer.

A number of insulin-dependent people are under threat due to the inability to purchase insulin, one of the women in labor was urgently delivered to Donetsk, the second is still in one of the villages.

The population of the settlements as of January 1, 2021 was 2,305 people, the actual number of inhabitants of the settlements is less, about 2,000 people. All of them are in need of humanitarian assistance.

We remind you that on February 24, a special operation for the denazification of Ukraine began, as a result of which the city of Mariupol was surrounded by the forces of the People's Militia of the DPR and Russian troops.

Volunteer: A number of villages near Mariupol are in great need of humanitarian assistance
[REGNUM] A catastrophic humanitarian situation has developed in a number of villages near Mariupol. On March 11, REGNUM was informed about this by one of the volunteers in the DPR, who visited the outskirts of Mariupol.

"As a result of hostilities, a difficult humanitarian situation has developed in a number of villages. The people's militia of the DPR advanced very quickly, "Azov" (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation) and other Nazis did not have time to cause significant harm to the villages and their residents, but as a result of the hostilities, the villages were left without gas, i.e. without heating, i.e. .to. they received gas from Mariupol," the volunteer said.

There is also no electricity or water. One of the villages, Zarya, consists of multi-storey buildings, there are no wells from which it would be possible to draw water when the centralized water supply is not working.

"People are running out or running out of food and fuel for generators. There are no medicines. The situation is further complicated by the fact that people received pensions, salaries and benefits in hryvnias, and along with the liberation of the territory of the DPR, the ruble zone expanded. They have nowhere to exchange hryvnias for rubles in order to buy what they need," the agency’s interlocutor shared.

According to the volunteer, a threatening situation has developed in the villages of Zarya, Granitnoye, Vodyanoye, and Priovrazhnoye. The most populated of them is the village of Zarya.

Ukrainian Nazis seized buses from refugees - Russian Defense Ministry
[REGNUM] The Nazis seized the buses prepared for the removal of civilians from dangerous zones, equipping them as mobile firing points, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev , head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation, said on March 10 at a briefing.

"We have reliably established that the nationalists seized buses, including school buses, as well as other vehicles intended for the evacuation of refugees, in order to use them as maneuverable firing points," he said.

Recall that Ukrainian civilians located in dangerous zones are not informed by the Armed Forces of Ukraine and other Ukrainian armed formations about humanitarian corridors for evacuation towards Russia, the DPR and the LPR.

Humanitarian corridors in Ukraine to open daily - Defense Ministry
[REGNUM] Humanitarian corridors for the evacuation of civilians from the territory of Ukraine to Russia will operate daily, regardless of the consent of Kiev, Mikhail Mizintsev , head of the National Defense Control Center (NTsUO) of the Russian Federation, said at a briefing on March 10 .

Humanitarian corridors will open from 10:00 Moscow time, Mizintsev specified.

"We officially declare that humanitarian corridors towards the Russian Federation will unilaterally, without any approvals, now open daily from 10 a.m., and in other directions in agreement with the Ukrainian side," Mizintsev said.

"In the territories controlled by the Russian Armed Forces, we guarantee complete security," the head of the National Center emphasized.

At the same time, he called on the International Committee of the Red Cross and the UN to “work closely with the Ukrainian authorities to inform the population of Ukraine about this Russian initiative,” since “Kyiv continues to categorically prohibit and does not coordinate the departure of the civilian population towards the Russian

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