“I decided to award a special title... Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Mariupol, Kherson, Gostomel, Volnovakha will become hero cities,” he said in a video message.
Earlier, the interdepartmental coordinating headquarters for humanitarian response in Ukraine reported that the Kiev authorities reject cooperation on the evacuation of people from Kharkiv and Sumy.
The representative of the People's Militia of the DPR, Eduard Basurin, said that the Ukrainian side refused to guarantee the regime of silence in Mariupol and Volnovakha.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the Kiev authorities are not fulfilling agreements on the evacuation of the population from the areas of clashes.
The Russian Defense Ministry spoke about the catastrophic humanitarian situation in Ukraine.