Iryna Vereshchuk: almost 29,000 people evacuated from seized cities on 15 March

Tuesday, 15  March 2022,  22:10

Only 7 out of 9 confirmed humanitarian corridors were functional on 15 March. Through these corridors, 28,893 people were evacuated from occupied cities.

Source: Iryna Vereschuk, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine, video address on Telegram

Details: Over 20,000 people left Mariupol through a humanitarian corridor.

8,533 people were evacuated from the Sumy region.

320 wards and staff of the Oskilsky psychoneurological boarding house were evacuated in the Kharkiv region.

A humanitarian convoy with buses designated to evacuate people from Mariupol – including citizens of Turkey and Greece who do not have their own transport – remained blocked in Berdyansk despite the preliminary agreement, according to Vereshchuk.

For the second time, Russian military personnel have not allowed the evacuation of people from the villages of Bohdanivka, Novobohdanivka, or Bobryk in the Kyiv region.

Quote: "We shall continue working on the humanitarian corridor for Mariupol tomorrow. We will also start evacuating people from the town of Izium."

"An evacuation will not take place in the Kyiv region tomorrow due to the round-the-clock curfew."

The Minister added that efforts are being made to release illegally detained representatives of Ukrainian local government.