Almost 13,000 Ukrainians were evacuated on 12 March
DENYS KARLOVSKYY — SATURDAY, 12 MARCH 2022, 22:19
On 12 March, Ukrainian authorities managed to evacuate almost 13,000 Ukrainians from the war zone through humanitarian corridors.
Source: address by Deputy Prime Minister Of Ukraine Iryna Vereshchuk
Vereshchuk’s Quote: "In regard to the results of open corridors– there were fourteen of them, nine worked.
While yesterday we managed to evacuate more than 7,000 people, today we evacuated slightly less than 13,000. This is very, very encouraging."
Details: About 8,000 people were evacuated from Sumy.
A total of 3,000 people departed from Krasnopillya, Lebedyn, Velyka Pisarivka and Konotop.
Evacuation from Energodar, in the Zaporizhzhya region, was not possible on March 12. Russian occupiers also stopped humanitarian cargo at the checkpoint in Vasylivka, despite previous agreements.
In the Kyiv region, people were not able to be evacuated from Irpin, Kozarovychi, Borodyanka, and Vorzel; however, almost 1,000 people were evacuated from Bucha. 600 people were evacuated from Hostomel.
1,264 people were able to leave the combat zone in Nemishayevo.
Vereshchuk appealed to the Russian occupiers to release Oleksiy Ihorovych Danchenko, an employee of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, who accompanied the evacuation buses from Hostomel.
According to her, he has been held captive for two days.
Vereshchuk promised that on 13 March, the Ukrainian authorities will try to open humanitarian corridors in the Kyiv and Luhansk regions, as well as evacuate people from Mariupol to Zaporizhzhya.
Background:
- Russian forces stopped the humanitarian aid moving from Zaporizhzhia to Mariupol in Berdyansk and appropriated some of it. Representatives of churches accompanied the convoy to deter the Russian military from shooting at the convoy.
- The President's Office was expecting the first evacuees from Mariupol to arrive on 12 March.
Russian forces attacked a column of women and children who were trying to evacuate from the Baryshivskyy district of the Kyiv region. Seven people were killed, including one child.
