kyiv russia planned to open humanitarian corridors in ukraine tuesday for civilians to flee besieged cities but kyiv insisted the move was a publicity stunt and people would not be able to escapemoscows offer to evacuate residents was condemned because most of the routes led into russia or its ally belarus and as the invading forces maintained a devastating shelling campaignthe ukrainian military said tuesday nearly two weeks into the war that russia was ramping up its troops and equipment around the main conflict zonesthe invasion has sparked the biggest war in europe and the continents largest refugee crisis since world war ii while the west has responded with sanctions on russia that have reverberated around the global economyrussias defence ministry said it would open the humanitarian corridors from 0700 gmt tuesday subject to ukraines approval listing routes from the capital kyiv as well as the cities of mariupol kharkiv and sumy all of which have been under heavy attackukraine did not initially respond to the offerbut ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy accused russia of reneging on previous escape route agreements and trying to stop people such as by planting explosives on roadsthere was an agreement on humanitarian corridors did that work russian tanks worked in its place russian grads multiple rocket launchers russian mines zelenskyy said in a video posted on telegramaccusing moscow of cynicism zelenskyy also said russian troops destroyed buses that were due to evacuate civilians from the combat zonesthey ensure that a small corridor to the occupied territory is open for a few dozen people not so much towards russia as towards the propagandists directly towards the television cameras he saidfrench president emmanuel macron also condemned the russian planall this is not serious it is moral and political cynicism which i find intolerable macron told french broadcaster lcii do not know many ukrainians who want to go to russia he added saying full ceasefires to protect civilians were needed rather than corridorsaddressing the security council the uns top humanitarian official martin griffiths also said civilians must be allowed to leave in the direction they wishat least 406 civilians have died since the start of russias assault on its exsoviet neighbour according to the un although it believes the real figures to be considerably higherukrainian forces said tuesday they had repulsed a russian attack on izium city in the kharkiv region and outgunned troops have been trying to hold back a russian push up from the east and south in an attempt to encircle kyivrussian forces suffered losses and retreated in izium after they reigned terror in the city by bombing civilian premises and infrastructure the military saidafp journalists witnessed thousands of civilians on monday fleeing fighting via an unofficial escape route from irpin a suburb west of kyiv towards the capitalchildren and the elderly were carried on carpets used as stretchers on the route which leads over the makeshift bridge and along a single path secured by the army and volunteersdesperate people abandoned pushchairs and heavy