Senior politics lecturer at the University of KwaZulu-Natal Doctor Dorcas Ettang says Russia and Ukraine are currently too far apart to consider any kind of mediation. The partial ceasefire that Russia announced yesterday is reported to have failed. The Russian Defence Ministry announced that its forces in southern Ukraine would stop their firing around the cities of Mariupol and Volnovakha to allow humanitarian corridors and evacuation of civilians. Moscow and Kyiv are trading blame over a failed ceasefire plan. Russia-Ukraine | Russia declares partial ceasefire to allow humanitarian corridor…