During the Siege of Mariupol, a number of attempts to establish a humanitarian evacuation corridor to evacuate civilians from the city have been made, but have failed due to the corridor being targeted by Russian forces. On 5 March, a five-hour ceasefire was declared, but evacuations were quickly halted after shelling continued during the declared time.[18] The next day, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) announced that a second attempt to establish an evacuation corridor had failed.[19] On 7 March, the ICRC announced that it had found that one of the routes listed for evacuations during a ceasefire had been mined.[20] On 8 March, Human Rights Watch released a statement saying attacks on the evacuation corridor potentially indicated that "Russian forces violated their obligations under international humanitarian law,"[21] though New York Times reporters on the scene confirmed that Ukrainian forces fired mortar rounds in the direction of the Russian forces from a military position about 180 meters from the location.[22]