Turkey tells Ukraine it welcomes progress on evacuation corridors  

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Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu told his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba that Turkey welcomed the progress made with Russia on setting up humanitarian corridors for civilians fleeing the war, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said on March 3, according to reporting by state-run Anadolu Agency. 

Çavuşoğlu spoke over the phone with Kuleba and discussed the latest developments in Ukraine, the agency said, citing diplomatic sources. 

Ukraine and Russia have agreed to create humanitarian corridors in areas of Ukraine where fighting is worst, Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said after negotiations between the two sides on March 3.

Podolyak said while there was no breakthrough on a cease-fire, negotiators did reach agreement on joint efforts to secure humanitarian corridors for evacuations and the supply of medicine and food to sites “with the most intensive fighting with a possibility of [a temporary] cease-fire in the areas where such evacuations will take place."

Podolyak spoke with journalists after the talks in western Belarus as Russian troops continued their full-scale attack on Ukraine. The negotiators also agreed to meet again, he said.

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