Ukraine and Russia humanitarian corridors will be in place and a ceasefire will be expected in these areas.
Russian and Ukrainian delegations agreed to possible brief ceasefires during discussions from an unknown location, the second this week.
But, according to Ukrainian presidential advisor Mykhailo Podolyak, the cease-fires would only be in regions where humanitarian corridors were being established and for the length of civilian evacuations.
“To our great regret, we did not get the results we were counting on,” he added.
Since the assault began last Thursday, Ukraine says that over 2,000 people have perished. According to the United Nations, the fighting has forced over a million people to escape Ukraine.
According to the United Nations, Russia’s continuous shelling of residential areas across Ukraine has caused more than one million refugees to escape the nation in only seven days, as the battle enters its second week.
“I have worked in refugee catastrophes for over 40 years, and seldom have I seen an exodus as quick as this one,” UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said in a statement Thursday.
Millions more people are likely to be forced to flee Ukraine, Grandi said. He added: “International solidarity has been heartwarming. But nothing — nothing — can replace the need for the guns to be silenced; for dialogue and diplomacy to succeed. Peace is the only way to halt this tragedy.”
Following a day of continuous bombardment, residents in Ukraine’s capital Kyiv were startled in the early hours of Thursday by at least one massive explosion in the southwest of the city. To the south, the mayor of the strategically vital Black Sea city of Kherson said that Russian soldiers had taken control, however, allegations are still being debated. According to local officials, inhabitants in the port city of Mariupol, which has a population of over 400,000, are without electricity and water as Russian forces ramp up their onslaught.