Eight of 9 humanitarian corridors worked on Thursday - Ukrainian Deputy PM Vereshchuk

KYIV. March 18 (Interfax-Ukraine) - Eight of the nine humanitarian corridors planned for March 17 worked, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories Iryna Vereshchuk said.

"Eight of the planned nine humanitarian corridors worked today. [...] The corridor for humanitarian assistance from Kharkiv to Vovchansk did not work. We continue working on coordinating routes for delivering humanitarian assistance," Vereshchuk told a briefing on Thursday evening.

Some 800 private cars left Mariupol on Thursday, and people also came out on foot, she said. Temporary assistance points were organized for them in Berdiansk.

Such points will also start working in Manhush on Friday. All people going on foot will be taken from Manhush to Berdiansk.

Twenty buses carrying some 160 people left Borodianka, Kyiv region, for Zhytomyr.

Forty-one buses and 200 private cars, carrying in total some 1,500 people, left the village of Shevchenkove and the neighboring villages for Brovary. Thirty-six tonnes of humanitarian assistance in the form of food and medications was also delivered to Hostomel, Bucha, and the villages of Semypolky, Markivtsy, and Apanasov.

A total of 3,810 people were evacuated via humanitarian corridors on March 17, Vereshchuk said. Some 40 tonnes of food and medications was delivered.