KYIV, Ukraine — Russia’s invasion of Ukraine entered its 10th day on Saturday with a cease-fire — meant to allow the exit of civilians — quickly falling apart in two besieged southern Ukrainian cities amid renewed shelling from Russian forces, according to Ukrainian officials.
The cease-fire was set to begin at 9 a.m. Kyiv time under an agreement with the Ukrainian government, the Russian Defense Ministry said, making it the first concrete sign of cooperation between the two sides after they decided in negotiations this week to create humanitarian corridors aimed at evacuating civilians from conflict areas.
Pavlo Kirilenko, head of the Ukrainian government’s regional military administration in the eastern province of Donetsk, confirmed the cease-fire and evacuation of Mariupol in a post on Facebook. The city of Volnovakha was also covered by the agreement.
