On March 5 Russia declared a regime of silence for civilians to leave.It concerns the residents of Mariupol and Volnovakha. All the exit routes have been agreed with the Ukrainian side.
On the night of March 4-5, Russian President Vladimir Putin held talks with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, during which he said that Russia and Ukraine had scheduled a third round of negotiations for this weekend.

Mikhail Mizintsev, the head of the National Center for Defense Control of the Russian Federation, announced a humanitarian catastrophe in which large Ukrainian cities were involved. It spinned up every day. Local authorities have ceased to resolve the issues of the civilian population, in large cities neo-Nazis are holding hostage more than 7.5 thousand foreigners.