Evacuation route out of Mariupol was mined, Red Cross says
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So no, the road was not trapped, it was clearly indicated that it is mined.
Moreover, as a deleted post noted, agreements "in principle" are not agreements. So if there's no crystal clear agreement, then no one moves (and puts the blame on negociating parties).
I understand this may sound harsh, but sending people on a road which is not 100% safe is dangerous.
The sentence as worded _could_ be interpreted that way but that would not be the typical interpretation and was almost assuredly not the intention from the article.
Here is what Dominik Stillhart actually says, not the BBC lies -
https://twitter.com/BBCr4today/status/1500779527777230852
Of course the Russians didn't try and mine an escape route. It wasn't an implemented route and it was known to be mined.
The English is confusing because the BBC is playing games. You got caught out in the 'word' games, but you were correct.
Go google this further in the news, look how the media a propaganda machine, it'll wrap around to the BBC again eventually to even more of a lie.
The media doesn't even need to lie for their propaganda here, Russia gives them heaps of material, but it's just so habitual for the media to lie.
Mines statiscally kill mostly civilians and mostly after a conflict is stopped. It actually makes zero sense for Ukraine to have done it.
On the other hand mining routes towards ukrainan controlled areas and making a ceasefire deal where civilians are escorted into Russian territory and used as hostages does make a lot of sense.