Ukraine says situation in besieged Mariupol is 'very difficult

 Ukraine described the situation in Mariupol on Monday, as "very difficult" and said that he had not been able to establish a new safe runner to evacuate civilians from the besieged city after he challenged a Russian ultimatum to surrender.Mariupol, a port city at the Azov sea, has been under siege and bombing, without food, medicine, energy or fresh water, from the first days of the Russian invasion on February 24. The video images of the city have been devastated.

The military of Russia ordered the Ukrainians within Mariupol to be delivered by 5 AM (0300 GMT), saying that those who did, would be allowed to come out through safe corridors.

"Of course, we reject these proposals," said Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk.She said that an agreement had been reached with Russia in the creation of eight humanitarian corridors to evacuate civilians from cities and besieged cities on Monday, but Mariupol was not among them.Efforts to get to the city with humanitarian supplies continue to fail, she said.

"The situation there is very difficult," she added.She did not give more details.

Ukraine has accused Russian forces of buildings bombing, including hospitals and a theater where she said that people were on the coating last week.Russia denies to lead civilians.The Ministry of Defense of Russia has blamed "Ukrainian nationalists" for the situation in Mariupol.A separatist leader of Russian backup in eastern Ukraine, said he would take over a week to take control of Mariupol.

"I'm not so optimistic that two or three days or even a week will close the problem, unfortunately, no, the city is great," Russian news agency Interfax quoted Denis Pushilin, head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk Republic, saying.The Minister of Defense, Oleksii Reznikov, said that the "heroic defenders" of the city had helped prevent Russia from going to other large cities and saved many lives.

The General Consul of Greece in Mariupol, Manolis Androlakis, who came home on Sunday after escaping the siege, said: "What I saw, I hope nobody see."He described Mariupol as standing next to Guernica, Leningrad and the previous objectives of Russia Grozny and Aleppo in a list of cities "completely destroyed by war".China urged playing 'important role' in conflict resolution

In a related development, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, asked China today to play an "important role" in efforts to resolve Kyiv's conflict with Moscow.

"We share Beijing's position on the need to find a political solution to the war against Ukraine and call China as a global power to play an important role in this effort," said Kuleba on Twitter.