evacuation

More than 600,000 people were evacuated from Kharkiv by train, since all the highways have been congested for many days now.

The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for the Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories, Iryna Vereshchuk, says the International Committee of the Red Cross, which is supposed to help secure humanitarian corridors, is not fulfilling its main purpose for fear of Russia.

Russian aggressors say they are ready to open humanitarian corridors to evacuate the population of Kyiv, Kharkiv, Mariupol, Sumy and Chernihiv at 10:00 a.m. on March 8.

The attempt to organise a humanitarian corridor out of Russian-occupied Irpin, Bucha, and Hostomel has resulted in the evacuation of some 2,000 people, but more than 4,000 still need to be evacuated from the outskirts of the capital.

Ukraine called the "evacuation" of people to Russia and Belarus proposed by the aggressor state unacceptable and demanded that they support evacuation routes from Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Zaporizhia to the western regions of Ukraine.

Cities, towns, and villages in the Sumy, Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Kyiv, Mykolayiv, Zaporizhzhya, Kherson, Luhansk, and Donetsk regions are in the most need of access to humanitarian corridors.

The second attempt at a "green corridor" for civilians again ended in shelling by the Russian invaders - in Mariupol, troops thwarted the evacuation.

Russian troops are deliberately firing 120mm mortars on a bridge in Irpin where civilians are trying to flee the city.

The Ukrainian government is negotiating the evacuation of civilians from Hostomel and Bucha in the Kyiv region, two cities that remain under the relentless fire of the Russian troops.

400 residents of Volnovakha, a town in the Donetsk Region of Ukraine, and surrounding villages were evacuated on Saturday, 5 March.

Russian troops have broken the ceasefire and shelled the "green corridor" established on 5 March for the evacuation of residents from the besieged Mariupol.