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Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias has proposed to lead a humanitarian aid mission in the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol.
Dendias told a news conference in Athens on March 22 that to honor Manolis Androulakis, the last European diplomat to leave Mariupol, he had established contacts with the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross to co-ordinate aid delivery efforts. .
“I have sent a verbal note to the Ukrainian side asking for facilitation of the delivery of humanitarian aid to Mariupol and another verbal note to the Russian side asking it not to thwart these efforts,” he said. “I plan to take part in sending this aid myself.”
Since the beginning of the occupation of Ukraine on February 24, Russia has carried out continuous airstrikes and heavy artillery, in an attempt to take control of this port city, which is of strategic importance, as it would enable Russia to create a land connection between Crimea and eastern Ukrainian areas.
Russia illegally annexed the Ukrainian Peninsula of Crimea in 2014. Meanwhile, the eastern regions of Ukraine are currently controlled by Russian-backed separatists.
It is estimated that over 200,000 civilians remain stranded in Mariupol without water, electricity and food supplies.
Androulakis, was Greece’s consul general in Mariupol, where many Greek sailors were also stranded due to fighting and six evacuation operations were needed to remove them from the city.
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