{"id":3984,"date":"2022-03-05T13:33:02","date_gmt":"2022-03-05T08:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=3984"},"modified":"2022-03-05T13:33:02","modified_gmt":"2022-03-05T08:33:02","slug":"russia-ukraine-war-russia-declares-partial-ceasefire-in-two-ukraine-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/world\/russia-ukraine-war-russia-declares-partial-ceasefire-in-two-ukraine-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia-Ukraine war: Russia declares partial ceasefire in two Ukraine cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow, March 5 (AsiaFreePress): Russia declared a partial ceasefire on Saturday to allow humanitarian corridors out of the Ukrainian cities of Mariupol and Volnovakha, international media reported quoting Russia\u2019s defence ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFrom 10am Moscow time [7am GMT], the Russian side declares a ceasefire and the opening of humanitarian corridors to allow civilians to leave Mariupol and Volnovakha,\u201d Russian news agencies quoted the Russian defence ministry as saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It came as war raged in Ukraine for a 10th day on Saturday as Russian troops besieged and bombarded cities in the biggest attack on a European state since the Second World War.<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3HhEWya\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fighting has created more than a million refugees, a barrage of sanctions that are increasingly isolating Moscow and fears in the West of a wider global conflict that has been unthought-of for decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moscow says its invasion is a \u201cspecial operation\u201d to capture individuals it regards as dangerous nationalists and has denied targeting civilians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ukraine\u2019s state service of special communications and protection of information says Russian forces have focused efforts on encircling Kiev and Kharkiv, the second-biggest city, while aiming to establish a land bridge to Crimea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kiev, in the path of a Russian armoured column that has been stalled outside the Ukrainian capital for days, came under renewed assault, with explosions audible from the city centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ukrainian media outlet\u00a0<em>Suspilne<\/em>\u00a0cited authorities in Sumy, about 300km east of Kiev, as saying that there is a risk of fighting in the city\u2019s streets, urging residents to stay in shelters.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow, March 5 (AsiaFreePress): Russia declared a partial ceasefire on Saturday to allow humanitarian corridors out of the Ukrainian cities of Mariupol and Volnovakha, international media reported quoting Russia\u2019s defence ministry. \u201cFrom 10am Moscow time [7am GMT], the Russian side declares a ceasefire and the opening of humanitarian corridors to allow civilians to leave Mariupol [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,73,6],"tags":[1343,564,2377,2378,2313,2376,199,2374,2375],"class_list":["post-3984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-security","category-world","tag-berlin","tag-ceasefire","tag-civilians","tag-evacuation","tag-kiev","tag-mariupol","tag-russia","tag-ukrain","tag-volnovakha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3984"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}