The evacuation of civilians from the besieged south-eastern city of Mariupol has been halted, the International Committee of the Red Cross said.<br />'' <br />'' The ICRC tweeted that today's attempt to start evacuating an estimated 200,000 people has failed. The failed attempts underscore the absence of a detailed and functioning agreement between parties to the conflict.<br />'' <br />'' A Ukrainian official has also blamed that a second attempt to evacuate civilians from a southern city has failed due to continued Russian shelling.<br />'' <br />'' Ukraine's Interior Ministry adviser Anton Gerashchenko said, the planned evacuations along designated humanitarian corridors were halted because of an ongoing assault.<br />'' Ukrainian military authorities said earlier Sunday that evacuations from the port city of Mariupol were scheduled to begin at noon local time (10 a.m. GMT) during a 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. local ceasefire.<br />'' <br />'' A similar cease-fire planned for Mariupol and the nearby city of Volnovakha. However, there is no statement issued by Russian side so far over Ukraine blame.<br />'' <br />'' An earlier report from Russian news sources, citing Russian-backed separatists, had claimed that some 300 people had been evacuated during the ceasefire.<br />'' <br />''<br />''Ukrainian and Russian forces blamed each other for failing to observe a ceasefire to allow local people to escape, after a similar agreement fell apart yesterday.<br />