Ukraine completes the opening of ten humanitarian corridors to evacuate civilians in the east and south of the country (Photo: Oleksandr Ratoshnik/UNDP Ukraine)
Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Irina Verychuk announced the opening of ten humanitarian corridors to evacuate civilians in the east and south of the country. This announcement comes at a time when Russian forces launched new attacks in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, which were repelled by the Ukrainian army.
In the western region of Donetsk, it is planned to open a corridor for the evacuation of civilians, who can use personal transport, from Mariupol to Zaporizhzhya.
In the southeast of Zaporizhzhia, passes are planned in Berdiansk, Tokmak, Melitopol and Enerhodar.
In Lugansk, humanitarian corridors will be opened in Severodonetsk, Lesichansk, Popasna, Hersk and Rubizny to Pakhmut.
Irina Vereshuk also reported that 4,676 civilians were evacuated on Thursday (7) from various Ukrainian sites.
Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, Mariupol has failed in multiple attempts to pass buses carrying supplies and evacuating civilians.
The mayor of Mariupol, Vadim Boychenko, spoke about the deaths of about 5,000 civilians. For more than a week, tens of thousands of residents of the coastal city on the Sea of Azov were without electricity and food shortages, and Russian troops “completely” withdrew from northern Ukraine. Britain’s Ministry of Defense said Russian forces had “completely withdrawn” from northern Ukraine and were on their way to Russia and Belarus.
The British Ministry of Defense added on Twitter, that some soldiers were transferred to eastern Ukraine to fight in the Donbass region.
Many of these forces will require significant resupply before they are ready to deploy east. Any mass redistribution from the north is likely to take at least a week.”
According to the British Ministry, Russian bombing continues on the cities of eastern and southern Ukraine, and Russian forces are heading to the city of Izyum, which is still under Moscow’s control.
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