Almost 5,000 people evacuated through humanitarian corridors

Kateryna Tyshchenko - Wednesday, 6 April 2022, 22:20

4,892 people were evacuated through humanitarian corridors on Wednesday, most of them to Zaporizhzhia.

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

Verbatim: "3,686 people travelled to Zaporizhzhia through humanitarian corridors from Mariupol and Berdiansk in their own vehicles and on evacuation buses today. 1,171 of them are from Mariupol."

"2,515 people arrived from towns in the Zaporizhzhia oblast: Polohy, Vasylivka, Berdiansk, Melitopol and Huliaipole. "

Details: Iryna Vereshchuk also stated that a convoy of 11 buses evacuating residents of Melitopol and Tokmak, which left Zaporizhzhia on Wednesday, is at the occupying forces checkpoint in Vasylivka and will continue to follow its route on Thursday morning.

The authorities will also send buses from Zaporizhzhia to evacuate people from Berdiansk in the morning.

In the Luhansk region, 1,206 people were evacuated from the towns of Lysychansk, Severodonetsk, Rubizhne, Kreminna and Hirs’ke village on Wednesday, 6 April.

"We try every day to break through to Mariupol, but the aggressors and their leadership in the Kremlin are blocking all our attempts and the efforts of international organisations," Iryna Vereshchuk said.

She noted that the delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross had all the necessary approvals from Russia and Ukraine to travel to Mariupol and evacuate people, but had been arrested by the so-called "Donetsk People's Republic" group and held in detention for almost a day.