Because of the continued Russian attack, scheduled evacuations along designated humanitarian corridors have been delayed, according to Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to Ukraine's interior minister.
A second attempt to evacuate citizens from the besieged Ukrainian port city of Mariupol failed on Sunday, according to reports, due to Russian troops' continued shelling.
Ukrainian military authorities said earlier in the day that evacuations from the port city of Mariupol would begin at 10 a.m. local time (10 a.m. GMT) during a 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. local ceasefire. Later, Russian President Vladimir Putin condemned Kyiv for the failure of the Mariupol civilian evacuation.
Meanwhile, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that a barrage of Russian missiles destroyed the airport in Vinnytsia, which is located in the country's conflict-torn central region.
On Sunday, the Kremlin's military assault of Ukraine entered its 11th day, displacing nearly 1.5 million people and killing hundreds of people. Russian military have bombed, bombarded, and attacked several cities and airbases in Ukraine with ballistic missiles.
"A missile strike on Vinnytsia has just been reported to me. There are eight rockets... The airport has been entirely demolished "he stated,
According to Anton Gerashchenko, the country's interior ministry adviser, planned evacuations along designated humanitarian corridors have been halted due to an ongoing assault. "There can be no 'green corridors,' because only the Russians' twisted brains decide when and where to shoot," he remarked on Telegram.
Due to severe bombing and bombardment by Russian forces, a similar ceasefire scheduled for Mariupol and the adjoining city of Volnovakha collapsed a day ago.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has stated that if Ukraine's sovereignty is threatened, the Ukrainian authorities will be held responsible. Putin said Ukraine's leadership needs to grasp the repercussions of their actions amid an increased military assault by Russian forces in the east European country, which has resulted in further sanctions being imposed on the Kremlin by the West.
According to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a volley of Russian missiles destroyed a civilian airport in Vinnytsia, central Ukraine, on Sunday.
"I just received word of a missile strike on Vinnytsia. There are eight rockets... On the 11th day of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, he remarked, "The airport was entirely demolished."
The claim could not be independently verified by Al Jazeera. Russia maintains that it is not striking civilian areas.
Moscow calls the campaign, which began on February 24, a "special military operation," and says it has no aspirations to seize Ukraine, which was previously under Moscow's control but has since turned to the West and applied for membership in NATO and the European Union.
To deter more Russian assaults, Zelenskyy reiterated his call that Western countries impose a no-fly zone over Ukraine.
"Every day, we say the same thing: close the sky over Ukraine." "All Russian weapons, Russian combat aircraft, and all Russian terrorists are close by, " he claimed.
"If you don't, if you don't at least provide us planes so we can defend ourselves, there's only one conclusion: you want us to die slowly."
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