3343 people evacuated through humanitarian corridors on 24 March
Denys Karlovskyy - Thursday, 24 March 2022, 22:49
On 24 March, 3,343 people were evacuated through 7 humanitarian corridors from settlements where active hostilities are ongoing.
Source: Iryna Vereshchuk, Deputy Prime Minister, in a video address on Telegram
According to Vereshchuk: "All 7 planned humanitarian corridors from the settlements where active hostilities are taking place have functioned.
I have received multiple messages lately from people who have managed to escape from the captivity of the occupiers.
They report cases of torture of prisoners."
Details: 2,717 Mariupol residents reached Zaporizhzhia from Mariupol in their own transport. Once again, a convoy with humanitarian aid and evacuation buses was not allowed into the city.
117 people have been evacuated from the town of Polohy in Zaporizhzhia, including 35 orphans from a local orphanage. At the same time, the evacuation from occupied Melitopol failed. Humanitarian supplies were delivered to Polohy and Melitopol.
509 people have been evacuated from the villages of Velyka Dymerka, Bohdanivka and Bervytsia to Brovary in the Kyiv region.
Iryna Vereshchuk added that the Russians have not let a humanitarian convoy into Mariupol for the third day in a row, and that food and a petrol tanker are currently parked at a Russian checkpoint at the entrance route to the city.
In her address, Iryna Vereshchuk listed the names of local authorities' representatives who had been taken prisoner by the Russian aggressors.
Children, who have been evacuated from Zaporizhzhia, are to be sent to Italy to recuperate.
Background:
- Iryna Vereshchuk said that on the morning of 24 March, the Ukrainian authorities had agreed on 7 humanitarian corridors with representatives of the Russian occupying forces.
- On 24 March, Vereshchuk reported on the first official exchange of prisoners of war between Russia and Ukraine, including the rescue crew of sailors captured near Zmiyiniy Island.
- The Russian aggressors are encouraging the abduction of children in the occupied territories in order to blackmail their parents.