According to senior Ukrainian government officials, a total of 3,343 people fled Ukrainian cities through humanitarian corridors on Thursday alone. The number is lower than the previous day, when 4,454 Ukrainians managed to escape.
Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said in an online publication that 2,717 people had managed to leave the eastern city of Mariupol, which is surrounded by Russian troops and under constant attack.
Vereshchuk also accused the Russians of blocking aid convoys in the city for the past three days.
On Thursday, the Ukrainian deputy prime minister confirmed that an agreement was reached on the establishment of seven humanitarian corridors to evacuate civilians from Ukrainian cities and towns.
But, she said, civilians who would try to leave the besieged city of Mariupol would have to find transport in nearby Berdyansk — making it clear that Russia has not allowed a safe corridor to be created to or from the port city centre.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the city “is being reduced to ashes” but that it “will survive.” A Ukrainian official said the city is still under heavy Russian bombardment: “bombs fall every 10 minutes.”
forced displacement crisis
Some 3.5 million people have fled Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion on February 24, the UN refugee agency UNHCR said. The exact number released by the organization was 3,528,346.
Of this total, more than 2 million would have moved to Poland, the destination country for most of the war refugees.
The number of civilians displaced as a result of the war is even greater, in addition to those who left the country. The UN migration agency said nearly 6.5 million people were displaced within Ukraine as a direct result of the war, beating its worst predictions.
Source: CNN Brasil
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