Fighting continues in the Ukrainian seaside Mariupol. The city has turned into ruins. The civilian population was able to evacuate through humanitarian corridors.
The Russian military advanced deep into the besieged Mariupol, as a result of heavy fighting, a large metallurgical plant was closed and partially destroyed. Irina Vereshchuk, Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, said that eight out of 10 humanitarian corridors worked on Saturday. During the day, 6.6 thousand civilians of Mariupol were evacuated – 4128 people were taken out, of which 1172 were children. According to the UN, more than three million 200 thousand people left Ukraine, 6.5 million became displaced persons within the country. euronews.
At yesterday’s briefing, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation, said that Russia has been opening humanitarian corridors for the exit of civilians in the Kiev, Mariupol, Chernihiv, Sumy and Kharkiv directions every day since 10 am. On each of them, one corridor leads to Russia, another – through the territories controlled by the Ukrainian authorities towards Western Ukraine, writes Satellite.
Zaporozhye is the city where the bulk of the evacuated Mariupol residents arrive. Some of them stay, others prefer to take a break and go further, towards Western Ukraine and the border, away from the war. On March 18, 2022, 2,277 people (including 624 children) were evacuated in 762 vehicles. According to the city authorities, just yesterday, on Saturday, March 19, more than 2,000 internally displaced persons from Mariupol arrived in Zaporozhye. The buses left Berdyansk on March 18, but people were forced to spend the night right in them, because it was dangerous to travel at night, writes 061. In just four days, the city met, resettled and provided the necessary assistance to 15,714 migrants, including 3,397 children.
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