At least 21 civilians, including two children, were killed in a Russian airstrike on a residential street in the northeastern Ukrainian town of Sumy late on Monday, the regional prosecutor’s office said in a statement released on Tuesday. fair (8).
The bodies were recovered by emergency services in ongoing searches, the agency said.
Ukrainian civilians boarded buses to flee Sumy early on Tuesday, the first evacuation of a Ukrainian city through a humanitarian corridor agreed with Russia after several failed attempts in recent days.
Sumy Governor Dmitro Zhivitskiy said in a video statement that the first buses had already left Sumy for the western city of Poltava. Zhivitskiy said priority will be given to the disabled, pregnant women and children in orphanages.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said it had opened humanitarian corridors in five Ukrainian cities, including the capital Kiev, information disputed by Ukrainian authorities. According to the ministry, Russian forces stopped attacks on these locations from 9 am local time (4 am GMT).
In addition to Kiev and Sumy, Russia said the other corridors are located in Cherhihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv and Mariupol, allowing civilians to safely evacuate cities.
Source: CNN Brasil
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