Ukraine Responds to Russia’s Mariupol Ultimatum – ‘No Surrender’
The Ukraine war is not going as planned by Russian President Vladimir Putin. Now residents of a chemical factory in northern Ukraine are threatened.
In the Ukraine war, the situation around Mariupol came to a head. The Ukrainian government has now rejected the ultimatum issued by Russia with clear words: “There will be no capitulation, no laying down of arms,” Deputy Prime Minister Irina Vereshchuk told the online newspaper Ukrajinska Pravda. The Tagesschau reports on this, among other things.
Russia is insisting on a “formal written response” that Ukraine has now sent. Instead of responding to the ultimatum, Vereshchuk replied, according to his own statement, among other things: “Instead of wasting your time on eight pages of a letter, just open a corridor.”
The situation in Mariupol is getting worse every day. The Ukrainian city has been under siege by Russian military for about three weeks. Now civilians are said to have become victims of the attacks again. According to Ukrainian authorities, an art school housing hundreds of women, children and the elderly was recently destroyed. This is reported, among other things, by Euronews.
