More than 6,500 people evacuated on Saturday - Ukrainian vice premier Vereshchuk

KYIV. March 20 (Interfax-Ukraine) - Eight out of ten humanitarian corridors worked on March 18 to help evacuate 6,623 people, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Reintegration of Temporary Occupied Territories Iryna Vereshchuk said in her video address on Saturday.

In particular, 4,128 people have been evacuated from Mariupol to Zaporizhzhya, including 1,172 children. Almost 500 Mariupol residents have been carried from the town of Mangush to Berdyansk. They are due to depart for Zaporizhzhya in the morning, Vereshchuk said.

In the Kyiv region, 500 people have been evacuated from the village of Bervytsia to Brovary, 320 from Bucha to Bilohorodka, and 1,000 from Bohdanivka to Brovary, she said.

In the Luhansk region, 160 people have been evacuated from Lysychansk to Bakhmut, 160 from Severodonetsk to Bakhmut, 45 from Rubezhny to Bakhmut, and 310 from Popasna to Bakhmut, she said.

More than 3,000 civilians were evacuated from areas in the Kyiv region on Saturday, bringing the number of people evacuated since the Russian operation began to 50,000, the Kyiv regional humanitarian headquarters said.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a video address late on Saturday that more than 180,000 Ukrainian citizens had been evacuated via humanitarian corridors.