The talks come as fierce fighting delayed a humanitarian aid convoy aiming to reach the besieged port city of Mariupol.
A humanitarian convoy attempting to reach the besieged port city of Mariupol did not leave Berdyansk on Sunday because of heavy fighting, according to Ukraine’s deputy prime minister and a clergyman accompanying the aid trucks.
Andrey Kovalenko, a bishop from the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, said fighting around the city was too intense. A new attempt would be made on Monday, he added. Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk also said in a video late Sunday that heavy shelling left the convoy stuck in Russian-controlled Berdyansk, about 50 miles southwest of Mariupol. In another post on Telegram, she said that the cars are moving slowly and that driving is possible only during the day.
Ukrainian officials had hoped the convoy carrying food and medicine would reach the city of more than 400,000 people this weekend. President Volodymyr ZelenskyAcknowledging later that the path was “blocked,” Zelensky said more than 130,000 people have been evacuated over six days across Ukraine.2,187 residents have died in the Russian invasion.
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