DPR says 300 people evacuated from Mariupol

DONETSK. March 6 (Interfax) - More than 300 people have been evacuated to the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) from surrounded Mariupol, the DPR territorial defense headquarters said.

"Despite provocations staged by Ukrainian nationalists in the direction of humanitarian corridors, the DPR has evacuated more than 300 people from Mariupol and settlements in its suburban area to the Novoazovskyi neighborhood," the DPR territorial defense headquarters said in a statement on Sunday.