More than 8,000 civilians were evacuated from various Ukrainian cities through humanitarian corridors

A total of 8,057 people have been evacuated from Ukrainian cities through humanitarian corridors during the day on Monday, as reported by the Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, Irina Vereshchuk.

Specifically, 3,007 civilians from the city of Mariupol have managed to reach Zaporizhia, while at least 4,750 people have been evacuated from the Kyiv region. In addition, in the Luhansk region, at least 300 people were able to leave the cities of Lysychansk, Sievierodonetsk and Horsky.

“26 buses have arrived in the city of Berdyansk. The difficulties created by the occupation forces at the checkpoints on the route to Mariupol do not allow the buses to quickly reach the meeting places,” he said, as reported by the Ukrainian news agency Union.

“Unfortunately, due to the shelling by the occupation troops, the evacuation of the Kozarovichi village could not be carried out,” he added, as noted in a message on his official Facebook profile.

Vereshchuk has also reported that nearly 45,000 people have been evacuated since the beginning of the Russian invasion, although more than 100,000 civilians still remain in the city of Mariupol, where the number of victims exceeds 3,000 people, according to the news agency. Ukrinform.

For his part, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, ‘number two’ in the office of the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has pointed out that a humanitarian corridor will be opened in Berdyansk for the towns of Melekine and Nikolske this Tuesday from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. (local time). and that 27 additional buses will be sent from the city of Zaporizhia, according to the Ukrainian news agency Interfax.

Meanwhile, Zelenskyy has affirmed this Monday that “the end of the war” will not be possible without a meeting “in any format” with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, and has assured that he is willing to talk “about the occupied territories”.

“I think that at this moment, without a meeting with the president of the Russian Federation in any format, and I have been repeating and proposing it for several years, without this meeting you cannot really understand what they are willing to do to stop the war”, the Ukrainian president pointed out.

In this sense, he has assured that in this possible meeting with Putin “he is willing to raise questions about the occupied territories”. “They are relevant to us and very important. But I am sure that this decision will not be made at that meeting, ”he said, as reported by the Ukrainian news agencies.