Red Crosss can’t reach city

The Red Cross says a team was unable to reach the city of Mariupol in Ukraine.

April 1, 2022 - 5:08 PM

The aftermath of a Russian airstrike on a maternity hospital in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol on Wednesday, March 9, 2022. According to the governor of the Donetsk region, 17 people, including women in labor, were injured in the airstrike. He claimed the airstrike happened during an agreed ceasefire period designed to allow civilians to escape from the besieged southern Ukrainian city. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who is based in the capital of Kyiv, claimed children were buried in the rubble. (Cover Images/Zuma Press/TNS)

GENEVA — The International Committee of the Red Cross says a team intending to help people leave the besieged city of Mariupol was unable to reach the port city on Friday.

The Red Cross said in a statement that the team hopes to try again Saturday.

“Arrangements and conditions made it impossible” for the convoy of three vehicles to get safely to Mariupol and they returned to Zaporizhzhia, it said.

“For the operation to succeed, it is critical that the parties respect the agreements and provide the necessary conditions and security guarantees,” the organization said.

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