New Delhi: Russia today declares a ceasefire to do “humanitarian surgery” starting at 12:30 a night India. The Russian Embassy in India released a list of “humanitarian corridors” which are ready to be provided. These include corridors from Sumy City in Northeast Ukraine, where around 600 Indian students have been stranded and cannot go even repeatedly.

India has raised this problem at the UN Security Council meeting in Ukraine yesterday. Ambassador TS Tirumu, Indian permanent representatives at the United Nations, said that India was “very concerned that regardless of our Urgings” to Russia and Ukraine, “the corridor was safe for our students stranded in Sumy did not materialize.”

To carry out a humanitarian operation from 12.30 IST on March 8, 2022, Russia expressed a ceasefire and was ready to provide a humanitarian corridor,” Russian Embassy in India Tweeted.

Russia has announced the humanitarian corridor from Sumy by two routes to Poltava and to “Russian Federation Region to Belgorod – then with air, train and road to selected destinations or temporary accommodations, in the south – in the agreement with the Ukrainian side”.

The United Nations considers the humanitarian corridor to be one key form of a temporary pause of armed conflict.

Both parties have blamed the failure in regulating corridors with each other. Russia stated that Ukrainian forces prevented people from leaving Mariupol City on Saturday, while Ukrainian authorities blamed the delay in Russian troops who violated the agreed ceasefire.

Previously, a spokesman for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called Russian steps to establish a “truly immoral” corridor, and said Russia tried to “use the suffering of people to make a television picture”.

In his announcement today, Russia blamed Ukraine again due to the failure of the corridor and said the situation was very deteriorating and “has obtained the character of a humanitarian disaster”.