At least 1,400 people have been evacuated from several cities in southeastern Ukraine in recent hours.
Russian authorities have confirmed that a humanitarian corridor will be opened from the port city next Friday Mariupol to that of Zaporizhzhyafulfilling the requests of the governments of France and Germany.
“At the personal request of the President of France (Emmanuel Macron) and the Chancellor of Germany (Olaf Scholz) to the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, from April at 10:00 a.m. (9:00 a.m. in the Basque Country) 1 , the Russian armed forces will launch a humanitarian corridor from Mariupol to Zaporizhia,” said Colonel Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the Russian National Defense Control Center.
Mizintsev added that on the route of the humanitarian corridor, a waypoint will be established in the port city Berdjanskyabout 70 kilometers from Mariupol and almost 170 from Zaporizhzhya.
The military high command has called for the participation of both the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) so that the outcome of this humanitarian operation is “successful”, Russia’s statement said. news. TASS agency.
in the last hours, at least 1,458 people have been evacuated from Mariupol and several cities in the Zaporizhzhya region along three agreed humanitarian corridors, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Irina Vereschuk reported.
“On March 31, 1,458 people arrived in Zaporizhia by private transport in three agreed humanitarian corridors. Of them, 631 residents of Mariupol and 827 from the cities of the Zaporizhia region,” Vereschuk wrote on his Facebook account.
This is how Mariúpol has remained after the attacks. Photo: EFE
Vereschuk has also reported that “50 private cars and a bus carrying children” have left the city of Energodar. They passed all the roadblocks and reached Zaporizhzhya,” he added.
For example, he stressed that there are more than 30 buses at the entrance of the towns of Berdyansk and Mariupol to take residents to Zaporizhzhya in the morning.
In addition, Vereschuk has denounced that Russian forces have not allowed 12 buses to enter Melitopol carrying humanitarian aid and evacuating civilians. The 14 tons of food and medicine they were carrying were seized by the Russians, he said.
Source: EITB
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