Ukraine: “Humanitarian corridors in Mariupol did not work today either”

The humanitarian corridor for the evacuation of civilians from the besieged Mariupolin the southeast Ukraine“Did not work” said tonight the Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Irina Veresuk, accusing them Russians that they violated the ceasefire but also that they blocked the buses.

«Unfortunately, the humanitarian corridor (to evacuate civilians from the Azofstal steel plant) did not work as planned today“, Said Veresuk.

The buses sent by Russia did not manage to transport the civilians in time to the place where the Ukrainian buses and ambulances were waiting for them to pick them up, she pointed out, according to APE BPE, which cites telegrams from AFP and Reuters.

“Few civilians left”

Fewer buses than planned were able to reach today in the besieged Ukrainian city and not many people were evacuated, said, a little earlier and the regional governor of Donetsk.

Pavlo Kirilenko made these statements after the mayor of Mariupol said today that he hopes that 90 buses could enter the city and drive away approximately 6,000 people trapped in the city – mostly women, children and the elderly.

«People gathered at the agreed meeting points, but few of them got on the buses“, write down.

Eyewitnesses previously told Reuters that dozens of civilians boarded a small knot in Mariupol, and then departed from a predetermined evacuation point destined for Ukrainian-controlled territories.

Source: News Beast

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