About 50,000 people are leaving Ukraine through a humanitarian corridor in Lviv, in the western part of the country, towards Poland, according to information from the special envoy of the CNN Mathias Brotero.
Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi said on Tuesday that the city was struggling to provide food and housing to some 200,000 people who fled war-torn parts of the country. The government of the Czech Republic has declared a state of emergency due to the exodus of the population.
The head of the United Nations (UN) refugee agency, UNHCR, Filippo Grandi, said that the number of refugees in Ukraine has increased to 2 million and could reach 5 million.
There has been a new attempt to establish humanitarian corridors in Sumy, Mariupou, Chernihiv, Kharkiv and Kiev, according to Russian news agencies.
Ukraine rejected a Russian offer to open humanitarian corridors in Kiev and Kharkiv because they would pass through Belarus, a country allied to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
In Mariupou, hundreds of refugees are hiding, many without water. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that a child died of dehydration. There were also reports of bombings in the locality, preventing the establishment of humanitarian corridors.
In Sumy, Governor Dmytro Zhyvytsky proclaimed that 3,500 people had been evacuated from the region. The city has suffered heavy attacks in recent days and is almost isolated from the rest of the country. On Monday night (7), 21 people were killed in an air strike.
Source: CNN Brasil
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