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Some 14,000 refugees have arrived in Italy from Ukraine.

Ministry officials will be pinpointing real estate that has been confiscated, but not yet assigned for use by municipalities or charities.

Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said without elaboration Monday that “there were some small positive shifts regarding logistics of humanitarian corridors” to allow civilians to flee some besieged Ukrainian cities.

Russia’s top negotiator Vladimir Medinsky, said he expects that humanitarian corridors in Ukraine will finally start functioning Tuesday.

Efforts to set up safe passage for civilians over the weekend fell apart amid continued shelling.

“I think that the international community has been tremendously responsive and have found ways to get the materiel in.

Le Drian referred to Russia’s tactic of bombing and then offering humanitarian corridors in the past, citing Aleppo in Syria and Grozny, in Chechnya.

“I’m even wondering if in Russian military schools there are classes to explain: ‘bombing, corridor, negotiations, breach , we start it all again’.

Albania was the only country during World War II to have more Jews in the end compared to the start offering them shelter from Nazi persecution.

Draghi was asked by reporters in Brussels on Monday if he thought there was still room for diplomacy.

“Humanitarian actors need to be able to intervene, so we must get full cease-fires when they intervene to place under protection women, children, men who need to be protected.

The issue won’t be solved via “corridors which are being threatened right away ,” he said.

Macron addressed the issue publicly after the Russian task force said the new pledge for humanitarian corridors was announced at his request, following a call with Putin on Sunday.

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