Facts about Russia-Ukraine conflict: Lviv starts to construct container town for fleeing Ukrainians

BEIJING, April 7 (Xinhua) — Relevant parties are working to broker a peaceful solution to the Russia-Ukraine conflict. The following are the latest developments:

The city of Lviv in western Ukraine started to construct a container town for people who fled conflict-affected areas in other parts of the country, mayor Andriy Sadovyi said Thursday.

After being completed, the settlement comprising 70 containers with furniture, electricity and heat would accommodate up to 350 people, he said on Telegram.

Sadovyi said several container towns would be set up in Lviv as a part of a project carried out with the assistance of Poland to support internally displaced Ukrainians.

On Thursday, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said that an economic war has been launched against Russia, and the country would need to adapt its economy to “these new realities.”

“The government and parliament are currently facing historical challenges,” Mishustin said during his address to the State Duma, or the lower house of Russia’s parliament.

Over 1,000 civilians have been evacuated from Ukraine’s conflict-affected city of Mariupol in the eastern Donetsk area with assistance from the International Committee of the Red Cross.

The organization has led a convoy of buses and private cars with civilians to enable them to leave Mariupol to Ukraine’s southern city of Zaporizhzhia safely, it said in a statement on Wednesday.

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