{"id":20638,"date":"2022-04-22T13:15:10","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T13:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=20638"},"modified":"2022-04-22T13:15:10","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T13:15:10","slug":"russia-ready-to-allow-evacuation-from-azovstal-steelworks-when-white-flags-are-raised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/04\/22\/russia-ready-to-allow-evacuation-from-azovstal-steelworks-when-white-flags-are-raised\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia &#8216;ready&#8217; to allow evacuation from Azovstal steelworks &#8216;when white flags are raised&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Russia\u2019s defence ministry said it was ready to allow civilians to leave the Azovstal steelworks in the besieged city of Mariupol if Ukrainian forces surrender, <\/strong>AFP reports.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the defence ministry said Russia is \u201cready at any moment\u201d to announce a \u201chumanitarian pause\u201d for the evacuation of civilians.<\/p>\n<p>The ceasefire would start with the \u201craising of white flags\u201d by Ukraine\u2019s forces \u201calong the entire perimeter or in certain areas of Azovstal\u201d, the ministry said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"quoted\"><p>If such signs are found in any part of the Azovstal metallurgical plant, Russia\u2019s armed forces \u2026 will immediately stop any hostilities and provide a safe exit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the ministry, civilians will be escorted to either territories controlled by Ukraine or to Russia \u201cat the evacuees\u2019 own discretion\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It said Ukrainian soldiers who have surrendered will be \u201cguaranteed\u201d their life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia\u2019s defence ministry said it was ready to allow civilians to leave the Azovstal steelworks in the besieged city of Mariupol if Ukrainian forces surrender, AFP reports. In a statement, the defence ministry said Russia is \u201cready at any moment\u201d to announce a \u201chumanitarian pause\u201d for the evacuation of civilians. The ceasefire would start with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":20639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[11830,5881,12283,9331,6848,9203,10819,5657,10302,5524,3457,5820,5618,5377,7931,5180,5555,6571,3954,594],"class_list":["post-20638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-armed-forces","tag-azovstal","tag-ceasefire","tag-city","tag-civilians","tag-evacuation","tag-humanitarian-pause","tag-mariupol","tag-plant","tag-refugees","tag-russia","tag-russia-air-defense-system","tag-soldiers","tag-surrender","tag-territories","tag-ukraine","tag-ukrainian","tag-white","tag-will","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}