Aid convoy, evacuation buses bound for Mariupol leave Zaporizhzhya - Vereshchuk

KYIV. March 12 (Interfax-Ukraine) - A convoy carrying humanitarian aid and buses for civilian evacuation are on the way from Zaporizhzhya to Mariupol, Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories, Iryna Vereshchuk, said on Saturday.

"A column with humanitarian cargo and buses for evacuation of the people on the way back is today departing the city of Zaporizhzhya for the city of Mariupol, Donetsk region, via the settlements of Zaporizhzhya, Vasilevka, Melitopol, Berdiansk, Mangush and Mariupol," Vereshchuk told a briefing on Saturday.