Kyiv wants to sign a document specifying the procedure of evacuation from the besieged Azovstal plant in Mariupol, Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister and minister for issues of reintegration on non-controlled territories Irina Vereshchuk said.
"We have begun a new round of negotiations about a roadmap on evacuation from Azovstal," she said. "There is the Red Cross, they are meeting with the Russians today on Thursday. We talked with them (the International Committee of the Red Cross), and also with the UN, and gave them a mandate. We want a document to be signed, on how exactly the evacuation from Azovstal will be carried out, and we are getting ready for signing," Vereshchuk was quoted as saying in the ministry’s Telegram channel.
In her words, Turkey will mediate the current round of negotiations. She also said the evacuation would be carried out in several stages, with the evacuation of heavily wounded being the first of them.
