A Red Cross convoy for Mariupol is still stalled, on the fourth day of trying to reach the city.

A desperately needed evacuation convoy and humanitarian aid has again been unable to reach the besieged southern city of Mariupol on Monday, the fourth day of trying, a spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross said.

The possibility of evacuations from Mariupol had loomed large earlier in the day after a planned I.C.R.C. convoy faltered over the weekend. Ukrainian government officials had initially issued hopeful messages that a convoy was on its way to the city.

But the team from the I.C.R.C. was stopped by the local police not far from Mariupol in the town of Mangush, where it had been carrying out humanitarian work, according to Jason Straziuso, a spokesman for the organization. He said the I.C.R.C. was in contact with all sides of the conflict. Read more

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