Buses evacuating Debaltseve residents move along humanitarian corridor - DPR
MOSCOW. Feb 6 (Interfax) - A convoy of buses carrying civilians has left the town of Debaltseve as part of the evacuation agreed between the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic and Kyiv, Eduard Basurin of the Defense Ministry of the Donetsk People's Republic told the Donetsk news agency on Friday.
"A convoy of buses with civilians has left the town," he said.
The self-proclaimed republic's ombudsman Darya Morozova, for her part, told Interfax there are plans to evacuate Debaltseve residents to DPR-controlled areas, located far enough from the combat zone.
"We will evacuate people westward - to Donetsk and Makiyivka," she said.
Morozova told the Donetsk news agency that there would also be a humanitarian corridor for residents of Vuhlehirsk.
"Indeed, such a corridor has been opened. I am near Debaltseve at the moment. I am on my way to Vuhlehirsk. I am responsible for the humanitarian corridor for residents of Vuhlehirsk," she said.
Morozova told Interfax earlier today that 20 buses would be provided to evacuate all people willing to leave the area of fighting near Debaltseve.
