“Just a few minutes ago, the Azov militants set off an explosive device planted earlier, as a result of which the house collapsed at the address: Meotida Boulevard, 15/20,” RIA Novosti quotes Pushilin.
According to him, up to 200 people remain under the rubble in the basement, most of them women and children.
Earlier, the people's militia of the Donetsk People's Republic stated that the Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked the headquarters of the Azov special forces detachment in Mariupol because of their refusal to obey the command.
From 10:00 Moscow time on March 4, the Russian side announced a regime of silence and opens humanitarian corridors for the exit of civilians from the Ukrainian Mariupol and Volnovakha.
As a result of the second round of negotiations, Moscow and Kyiv reached an understanding on the joint provision of humanitarian corridors for the evacuation of civilians and the delivery of medicines and food to the places of hostilities in Ukraine.