MOSCOW, March 15 (Xinhua) -- The Russia-Ukraine conflict continues on Tuesday as relevant parties are working to broker a peaceful solution.
Negotiations between Russia and Ukraine are being held daily. That's according to Russian presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky, also the head of the Russian delegation on Monday.
Medinsky said the negotiations are being held seven days a week, in a format of video conferences.
The fourth round of negotiations between Russia and Ukraine occurred earlier on Monday via video link.
According to Ukrainian Presidential Advisor Mykhailo Podolyak, a member of the delegation, a technical pause has been taken in the negotiations until Tuesday.
Podolyak has also said that the Ukrainian delegation is seeking a ceasefire and a troop withdrawal during the peace talks with Russia.
After rounds of negotiations, Ukraine and Russia agreed to set up humanitarian corridors to evacuate civilians.
According to Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk, some 150,000 people had been evacuated from conflict zones in Ukraine to safe places through humanitarian corridors by Monday.
The Interfax-Ukraine news agency on Monday cited a Ukrainian official as saying that Ukraine has established 26 humanitarian corridors in six regions to evacuate civilians.
Also on Monday, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced the release of 40 million U.S. dollars from the world body's Central Emergency Response Fund to ramp up vital humanitarian assistance in Ukraine.
Meanwhile, China's permanent representative to the United Nations Zhang Jun said that "the wanton use of sanctions" will not help solve the conflict in Ukraine but only create new problems.
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