Ukrainian authorities on Friday held negotiations regarding a humanitarian evacuation from several settlements in the temporarily occupied areas of the Kherson region currently controlled by Russian forces.
According to Ukrinform, Ukraine's Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights, Dmytro Lubinets, announced this during a television broadcast.
"Today we separately held talks regarding the urgent humanitarian evacuation from the settlements of Oleshky, Stara Zburivka, Nova Zburivka, Hola Prystan and others. There is simply a humanitarian catastrophe there — Ukrainian civilians are without food, effectively without drinking water, and without medicine," he said.
Lubinets stated that people in those territories are hiding in basements because active combat operations are ongoing.
"And it is specifically the Russian side that is simply not allowing our civilians to leave. Today we spent quite a long time discussing various options; there were military representatives from both sides, let's put it that way. A ceasefire regime was discussed so that this humanitarian evacuation could take place," the ombudsman noted.
