Ukraine demands humanitarian corridor from Azovstal for civilians and wounded soldiers
Roman Petrenko – Thursday, 21 April 2022, 11:32
Ukraine’s government is demanding that the Russian occupying forces create a humanitarian corridor from the Azovstal plant in Mariupol to evacuate civilians and wounded soldiers.
Source: Iryna Vereshchuk, Minister for the Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories, on Telegram
According to Vereshchuk: "We demand that Russia urgently create a humanitarian corridor from the Azovstal plant in Mariupol!
Nearly 1,000 civilians and 500 wounded soldiers are currently at the plant. All of them must be evacuated from Azovstal today!
I am calling on the world leaders and the international community to focus their current efforts on Azovstal."
Background: On 20 April, 4 evacuation buses managed to evacuate civilians from Mariupol via a humanitarian corridor.
