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UPDATES: Russian MoD Calls on Kiev to Take Back Order to Militants to Become 'Martyrs of Mariupol'

19:44 GMT 20.03.2022 (Updated: 04:35 GMT 21.03.2022)

In Mariupol, which has become a base of operation for the Azov battalion, nationalists are preventing the evacuation of local residents and using civilians as human shields while they launch counterattacks at advancing Russian forces from hospitals, schools, and other civilian infrastructure.

Over the past three days, Russian troops have helped to evacuate 59,304 people, including 139 foreign citizens, from the besieged city to Russia, the head of the Russian National Defence Control Centre, Mikhail Mizintsev, said on Sunday.

Official Kiev encouraged nationalists in the besieged city to become an "example of resilience", sacrifice themselves so that they would be given the status of "martyrs of Mariupol", according to the Russian MoD. To achieve this goal, they were given the green light to use more than 200,000 of the city's residents as "human shields".

On 24 February, Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine responding to calls for help from the breakaway republics of Donetsk and Lugansk in defending themselves against aggression by Ukrainian troops. The Russian Defence Ministry said the operation is only targeting Ukrainian military infrastructure.

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02:12 GMT 21.03.2022

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00:50 GMT 21.03.2022

Tribunal Awaits Ukrainian Nationalists in Mariupol, DPR Ombudsman Warns

DONETSK (Sputnik) - The law enforcement agencies of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) plan to collect evidence of all the crimes committed by the Ukrainian nationalist battalions in the city of Mariupol, DPR Human Rights Envoy Daria Morozova tells Sputnik.

"We will continue the same work that is being carried out right now in all the liberated territories, for example, in the town of Volnovakha. And all those who have broken the law, all those who have violated the Geneva Convention and the norms of international law, and actually their own, Ukrainian, legislation, will face trial. This will be judged in the future in the tribunal, we will not back down," Morozova said.

She emphasized that people evacuated from Mariupol to DPR are already expressing extreme indignation at the actions of the Ukrainian armed formations that are using civilians as live shields in Mariupol and are taking food away from ordinary people, including mothers and their children.

00:12 GMT 21.03.2022

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00:10 GMT 21.03.2022

Kiev Refuses to Accept Russia’s Proposals on Mariupol - Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister

The head of the Russian National Defense Control Center, Mikhail Mizintsev, said on Sunday that the Russian Defense Ministry was urging representatives of the United Nations, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and the Red Cross to help with the humanitarian operation to evacuate civilians from Ukraine's Mariupol. Mizintsev also said that Moscow was insisting on receiving an official written response from Kiev to all its humanitarian proposals on ensuring the safety of Mariupol residents and the city's infrastructure.

"There can be no talk of any surrenders, laying down of arms. We have already informed the Russian side about this," Vereshchuk told the Ukrayinska Pravda newspaper, adding that Kiev has already conveyed this stance to the UN and the Red Cross.

19:46 GMT 20.03.2022

Every Day Nationalists Kill From 80 to 235 Innocent Citizens Who Try to Leave Mariupol - Russian MoD

"There is a terrible humanitarian catastrophe in Mariupol as a result of the lawlessness brought about by Ukrainian nationalists. Desperate and mindless bandits, realizing the impossibility of receiving any assistance from Kiev, terrorize those neighborhoods of the city that are still under their control," the head of the Russian National Defense Control Center, Mikhail Mizintsev, said.

Russia receives reliable information showing terrible atrocities committed by the militants, who are at the end of their rope, he noted.

"It has been established that from 80 to 235 innocent citizens die every day at the hands of the Nazis, this is a terrible statistic for the last three days only. These are the people that are trying to leave the city on their own, the militants simply shoot them," Mizintsev said.

He called on the Mariupol authorities to make a "historic choice" and stand up against the bandits in their city and not go to the war tribunal with them.

19:45 GMT 20.03.2022

Russian MoD Says Up to 130,000 Civilians Still Held Hostage in Mariupol, Urges City Authorities to Stand up Against Nationalists

19:44 GMT 20.03.2022

Russian MoD Invites Representatives of UN, OSCE, Red Cross to Accompany Humanitarian Operation Evacuating Mariupol Residents

"To fulfill this task [evacuation], we are also sending an official appeal to the UN, the OSCE, the International Committee of the Red Cross and other international organizations, inviting their representatives to accompany this humanitarian operation, as they say, directly 'on the ground,' that is, in the city Mariupol, as part of Russian and Ukrainian humanitarian convoys," the head of the Russian National Defense Control Center, Mikhail Mizintsev, said on Sunday.

He also noted that Russia is insisting on receiving an official written response from Ukraine to all its humanitarian proposals on ensuring the safety of Mariupol residents and the city's infrastructure before 05:00 local time on Monday.