TThe administration expressed hope for progress on evacuation from Mariupol “in the near future” Ankara offered assistance in the evacuation of civilians and wounded from the city by sea. The issue is being resolved in coordination with the Russian side, the Turkish Ministry of National Defense said
In Turkey, “in the near future,”they expect progress in resolving the issue of the evacuation of Mariupol residents. This was stated by the Minister of National Defense of the country Hulusi Akar.
“We expect and hope for positive developments in the near future,” the minister said.
He stated that Turkey is ready to provide “ship support” for the evacuation of civilians and wounded from Mariupol. “We continue to work in coordination with the Russian and Ukrainian authorities to deliver humanitarian aid to Ukraine, as well as to ensure the safe evacuation of citizens of other countries, especially Turkish citizens staying in Ukraine, to Turkey,” Akar added.
Turkey on April 2 offered assistance in the evacuation from Mariupol by sea, Ankara also promised to allocate the necessary ships for this. As the Anadolu agency noted at the time, the Turkish side coordinated actions with the structures of Russia and Ukraine. In particular, the Russian military attache was invited to the Turkish Defense Ministry and brought this information to his attention. The initiative was also transferred to Russian authorities and through the Turkish military attache in Moscow.
Turkish President Recep Erdogan has also repeatedly offered his assistance in organizing negotiations between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky in Turkey. Erdogan also asked Putin to open a humanitarian corridor from Mariupol.
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On April 3, Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the National Defense Control Center of Russia, announced that Russian troops would assist in the evacuation of foreign citizens from Mariupol, for which a special corridor would be opened and a regime of silence guaranteed.
On April 4, the Russian Defense Ministry offered to leave Mariupol to the Ukrainian military and “foreign mercenaries”, they can leave the city in the morning on April 5 along the route agreed with Kiev, provided they lay down their weapons. The military should leave in the direction of Zaporozhye. The decision, the ministry explained, was made in connection with the “most difficult humanitarian situation in certain areas of Mariupol controlled by Ukrainian armed formations”.
Military operations near Mariupol began shortly after Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine. By February 28, the DPR forces blocked the city, by March 11, the Defense Ministry reported that the Ukrainian side had destroyed all bridges and approaches to the city, and nationalists had mined the main roads. A week later, the ministry reported about the battles that are being fought in the center of Mariupol.
At the end of March, the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, said that Mariupol was 90% 95% liberated from Bandera scumbags, Nazis and Chechen-speaking Shaitans. On April 5, Kadyrov said that 267 Ukrainian soldiers from the 503rd Battalion of the 36th Separate Marine Brigade of the Ukrainian Navy surrendered in Mariupol.
Russia has been conducting a special operation in Ukraine since February 24, the Ministry of Defense stated that the Russian military does not strike civilian targets.
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