19 Mar 2022 11:50

Seven humanitarian corridors worked on Fri, over 9,000 people evacuated - Ukrainian Deputy PM Vereshchuk

KYIV. March 19 (Interfax-Ukraine) - Seven out of nine humanitarian corridors operated on Friday, 9,145 people were evacuated, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories Iryna Vereshchuk said.

A total of 4,972 people were evacuated from Mariupol to Zaporizhzhya, 4,173 people from Sumy region, [including] 3,296 from Sumy, 246 from Trostianets, 50 from Lebedyn, 400 from Konotop, 146 from the Krasnopillia village, 41 from Bolsha Pysarivka.

Routs to deliver humanitarian assistance to the Kherson, Kharkiv and Luhansk regions are being drafter for Saturday, March 19. In addition, humanitarian corridors to evacuate people from cities in the Kyiv region are being set up.