Authorities within the metropolis have put the dying rely within the metropolis at over 2,000.

Brussels:

President Emmanuel Macron mentioned Friday France was working with Turkey and Greece on a “humanitarian operation” to evacuate folks from the devastated Ukrainian metropolis of Mariupol underneath assault by Russian forces.

“We are going to work with Turkey and Greece to launch a humanitarian operation to evacuate all those who wish to leave Mariupol,” Macron mentioned after an EU summit in Brussels.

“I will have a new discussion with (Russian) President Vladimir Putin within the next 48 to 72 hours to work out the details and secure the modalities,” he mentioned.

The French chief mentioned he hoped to “be able to involve the maximum number of stakeholders in this operation”.

He mentioned that he needed to be “in a position” to conduct the evacuation “in the next few days”.

Macron mentioned that French officers had spoken Friday to the mayor of Mariupol and that the 150,000 remaining residents have been left trapped in “dramatic conditions”.

Authorities within the metropolis have put the dying rely within the metropolis at over 2,000, and mentioned Friday {that a} single strike final week on a theatre the place civilians have been sheltering was feared to have killed 300 folks.

Russia has made the port metropolis a serious focus of its brutal onslaught on Ukraine because it tries to hyperlink up the annexed Crimea peninsula with Moscow-controlled areas within the east.

The Kremlin’s devastating assault on Mariupol has drawn parallels with the bombardments by Russian forces that flattened Chechen capital Grozny and Syria’s Aleppo.

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