[BREAKING] Ukraine Invasion: Vladimir Putin Declares Temporary Ceasefire

• Russia has declared a ceasefire in two regions of Ukraine to allow civilians to evacuate.

• The Russian defence ministry said in a statement carried out by the RIA Novosti and Tass agencies.

EKO HOT BLOG reports that Russia had agreed to create humanitarian corridors with Ukrainian forces to allow people to leave the strategic port of Mariupol in the southeast of the country and the eastern town of Volnovakha.

The evacuation route from Mariupol would be open for five hours from 12-7pm Moscow time, according to RIA.

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Recalls that the Ukrainian and Russian negotiators had reached agreements on cease-fire after meeting for the second time at Belarusian borders on Thursday and agreed that the two sides should provide for a number of humanitarian issues.

During their talks, representatives of the two nations agreed on a temporary cease-fire to allow the evacuation of citizens and the delivery of aid to areas where fierce fighting has been taking place.

One of the Ukrainian representatives and adviser to the President, Mykhailo Podolyak said that the second round of cease-fire talks had not yielded the results Kyiv hoped for.

According to him, cease-fires would only take place in designated humanitarian corridor areas.
Also speaking after the meeting, one of the leading Russian representatives, Vladimir Medinsky claimed the negotiations yielded “substantial progress,” in contrast to his Ukrainian counterpart.
“The main issue we decided on today was the issue of saving people, civilians, who are in the zone of military clashes,” Medinsky said.

“Russia calls on civilians who find themselves in this situation, if military actions continue, to use these humanitarian corridors,” he said.
Russian negotiator Leonid Slutsky said the agreements in the second round of talks will be “implemented in the near future.”

Russians forces have continued to bombard Ukraine in a war that has lasted for over a week now with Ukrainian forces also being commended for their resistance so far.

Although President Vladimir Putin said the war is going as planned, his Ukrainian counterpart said his forces have killed over 9000 Russian soldiers.

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