Three humanitarian corridors are scheduled for 30 March, all in the Zaporizhzhia region
DENYS KARLOVSKYI - WEDNESDAY, 30 MARCH 2022, 09:59
Ukrainian authorities have agreed three "green corridors" to evacuate people and deliver humanitarian aid, all of them in the Zaporizhzhia region, for 30 March.
Source: Iryna Vereshchuk, Deputy Prime Minister
According to Vereshchuk: "As of today, three humanitarian corridors have been agreed:
- for the evacuation of Mariupol residents and the delivery of humanitarian aid to the city of Berdiansk,
- delivery of humanitarian aid and evacuation of people from the city of Melitopol,
- and also for the passage of a convoy of people in their own vehicles from the city of Enerhodar to Zaporizhzhia.
Established convoys of buses and trucks with humanitarian aid have already departed from Zaporizhzhia.
We demand that the occupying forces respect the commitments they have made and allow the humanitarian convoys to pass through checkpoints.
On the way back to Zaporizhzhia, humanitarian convoys from Berdiansk and Melitopol can be joined by people in their own vehicles."
Details: Vereshchuk said that on 29 March, the Ukrainian delegation at the negotiations in Istanbul handed over proposals to Russian representatives on evacuating people from the 97 most affected settlements in the nine regions where the hostilities are taking place. Now Ukraine is waiting for these corridors to be agreed.
The minister said there had been an unauthorised detonation of obsolete ammunition at a depot in the Russian city of Belgorod. Similar munitions are stored by the Russian invaders in the "exclusion zone" near the Chornobyl nuclear power plant.
It called on the invading forces to withdraw immediately from the Chernobyl NPP and asked the UN Security Council to institute a special mission to oversee the demilitarisation of the zone around it.
