New Delhi, March 8 (TIWN) One supposedly safe passage out of the besieged southern port city of Mariupol in Ukraine went straight through a minefield, Daily Mail reported.

Russia offered six routes to allow civilians to leave Mariupol, Kharkiv, Sumy and the capital Kiev.  But its words were exposed as a 'cynical stunt' when it emerged some of the routes would lead Ukrainians straight to Russia. The plan was dismissed as 'immoral and unacceptable' by Ukraine and as 'nonsense' by Britain's Europe minister, James Cleverly, Daily Mail reported.