4 out of 7 humanitarian corridors have worked, over 7,000 people have been evacuated - Iryna Vereshchuk

Kateryna Tyshchenko - Sunday, 20 March 2022, 22:47

Only 4 of the 7 humanitarian corridors were functional on Sunday, and 7,295 people were evacuated.

Source: Iryna Vereshchuk, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine, at a briefing

Details: 3,985 people arrived in Zaporizhzhia from Mariupol (Donetsk Region), travelling by 11 buses from Berdyansk and by private transport.

50 buses are scheduled to leave Zaporizhzhia for Mariupol on Monday morning.

Vereshchuk said that there is a hotline in Berdyansk that can be contacted for assistance with temporary accommodation and evacuation to Zaporizhzhia: +38 050 439 75 29, 3 62 76 and 3 52 52.

"We negotiated today to allow some of the buses to arrive and evacuate Mariupol residents from the town of Manhush tomorrow, as well as coastal settlements near Manhush, including Melekino," said the Deputy Prime Minister.

She gave a reminder that private cars belonging to Mariupol residents moving from Mariupol to Zaporizhzhia continue to be refuelled in Berdyansk.

2,000 people were evacuated from the village of  Bobryk to Brovary, and 1,310 people were evacuated from the village of Tarasivka to Brovary in the Kyiv region.

The evacuation from Borodyanka to the city of Bila Tserkva was disrupted for a second day in a row due to occupying forces violating the ceasefire, according to Vereshchuk.

Humanitarian aid was delivered to the village of Rohan in the Kharkiv region. However, the aid delivery to the village of Mala Rohan was disrupted because the Russians planned to seize the humanitarian convoy, according to Ukrainian intelligence.

Vereshchuk also shared information about people who were in the humanitarian convoy, which lost communication on the way to Vovchansk town. There are 5 drivers and 1 doctor among them:

Ambulance driver - Artem Vasylovych Kashkarov

Doctor - Artem Oleksandrovych Burda

Driver - Vladyslav Yuriyovych Honcharenko

Driver - Pavlo Viktorovych Pozin

Driver - Pavlo Oleksandrovych Korneyko

Driver - Oleksandr Ivanovych Maslov

The Ukrainian authorities are negotiating the return of these people, according to Vereshchuk.

She also urged citizens to be sympathetic to the shortcomings in the organisation of the evacuation since "all this is the result of wartime realities."