Biden will meet Ukrainian officials, there are 10 humanitarian corridors set up

“U.S. President Biden will attend the dialogue between Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin with his Ukrainian counterparts, Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba and Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov, on the second day of his visit to the United States of America. Lan”, Euro News news agency quoted a statement released by the White House today.

US President Joe Biden and his Polish counterpart Andrzej Duda on March 25. Photo: AP

According to Euro News, this is the first meeting between the US president and senior officials of the Kiev government since Russia launched a military campaign against Ukraine late last month.

Ukraine says 10 humanitarian corridors will be established

According to Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Iryna Vereshchuk, an agreement of 10 humanitarian corridors has been established to evacuate people from war zones.

“People trying to leave the besieged city of Mariupol will be allowed to leave in their own cars, because the Russian military does not allow buses to pass through the checkpoints they have set up around the city. ”, Reuters news agency quoted Ms. Vereshchuk as saying today (March 26).

Currently, Russia has not commented on the statement of the Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine.

Russia controls town near Chernobyl

Major General Oleksandr Pavlyuk, who is commanding the defense forces in the area around the capital Kiev, said today that the Russian army has taken control of the town of Slavutych, formerly the residence of workers responsible for the operation. Chernobyl nuclear power plant. “They seized the Slavutych town hospital and ‘kidnapped’ the mayor,” Pavlyuk told Al Jazeera news agency.

According to Al Jazeera, the Ukrainian army earlier on March 25 repelled the first attack of the Russian armed forces on the town.

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Tuan Tran