More than 300 people evacuated as part of Mariupol humanitarian corridor

KATERYNA TYSHCHENKO —  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2022, 23:30

344 people were evacuated on Thursday as part of the Mariupol humanitarian corridor. 

Source: Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk on Telegram

Quote: "Today 344 people were evacuated as a part of the Mariupol humanitarian corridor.

These are women, children and the elderly from Mariupol, Manhush, Berdiansk, Tokmak and Vasylivka. All of them have just arrived in Zaporizhzhia."

Details: Vereshchuk thanked the staff of the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross, as well as the staff working in the humanitarian convoy.

"The Mariupol humanitarian operation continues," she said.

Background: On 3 May, 156 civilians evacuated from the Azovstal plant in Mariupol on 1 May arrived in Zaporizhzhia.

Before that, the mayor of Mariupol Vadym Boichenko said that only 3 buses out of 14 buses transporting Mariupol residents to Ukrainian-controlled territory had made it. The fate of the people from the remaining 11 buses is unknown; more than a thousand city residents are still awaiting evacuation.

On 4 May, Russia announced that a humanitarian corridor for the evacuation of civilians from the territory of the Azovstal plant in Mariupol would be opened on Thursday at 8 am, but did not mention anything about the military, including the wounded.

Read more here: "Women were promised that they would be sent their husband's head." Stories of those who escaped from Azovstal