The fear is that Russia will now resume its offensive, without regard for the safety of the hundreds of thousands of civilians still trapped
is fuzzy and faint, but any phone connection at all after a communications blackout lasting days is a miracle in itself. Dmitry, a doctor trapped in the encircled city of Mariupol, is shouting what he can down the receiver, and not all of it gets through. The internet, like electricity and heating, is down all over the city, he says. Mariupol’s inhabitants are living underground, and in darkness.
The next morning Russia's Ministry of Defence announced that it would institute a ceasefire, brokered in part by the Red Cross, and allow trapped residents safe passage out of Mariupol and Volnovakha, another besieged town nearby. The ceasefire would be observed from 9am to 4pm, the Russians said—sufficient time, in theory, for the evacuees to reach relative safety.
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