UK Intelligence ensures that Russia uses humanitarian corridors to advance in Donbas

MADRID, 19 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The British intelligence services have assured this Saturday that Russia would be using the humanitarian corridors to advance "deeper" in the Donbas region.

"Since June 14, Russian and separatist officials have claimed that they are attempting to establish humanitarian corridors allowing civilians to evacuate Severodonetsk," the British Ministry of Defense said in a statement on Twitter.

UK intelligence has argued that Russian troops have precedent, in both the Ukraine and Syria campaigns, of using unilaterally declared humanitarian corridors as a "mechanism to manipulate the battlespace and impose the forced transfer of populations."

"Ukrainian civilians trapped in Severodonetsk are likely to be wary of using the proposed corridor. Options to get out of the city are limited by the destruction of bridges, but the route proposed by Russia would take them towards the city of Svatove, further inland." occupied by Russia," the UK Defense Ministry said.

If the trapped civilians did not accept the offer to exit through a corridor, "the Russians will probably justify making less distinction between themselves and any Ukrainian military targets in the area," British Defense added, hinting that the life of Ukrainian civilians.

The Russian government announced last Wednesday that it would open a humanitarian corridor for the evacuation of civilians from an Azot chemical plant, in the Ukrainian city of Severodonetsk, and the scene of an intense offensive by Russian forces in recent days.

This Friday, however, they have indicated that there is still no agreement with the Ukrainian troops. "There is still no agreement on the opening of a humanitarian corridor from Azot for both civilians and military to lay down their weapons," said the ambassador to Russia of the self-proclaimed Lugansk People's Republic, an ally of Moscow, Rodion Miroshnik.