Rubber corridors: 4.5 thousand people were evacuated in one day, the aggressors blocked the column in Zaporizhzhia

Kateryna Tyshchenko - Wednesday, March 23, 2022, 22:01

Russian aggressors blocked a convoy of buses evacuating people from the city of Polohy to Zaporizhzhia.

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

Quote: "The aggressors blocked a convoy of buses evacuating people from the city of Polohy to Zaporizhzhia at a checkpoint in the city of Vasylivka. Now they have been let through and they are continuing to move along the route. People will be evacuated from Tokmak tomorrow morning."

Details: 7 of the 9 humanitarian corridors were open on Wednesday. A total of 4,554 people were evacuated during the day.

In particular, 2,912 people travelled from Mariupol, Donetsk region, to Zaporizhzhia in their own vehicles.

At the same time, buses and trucks with humanitarian aid, which arrived in Berdyansk on Tuesday, were blocked all day by the occupying forces at the entrance route to the city.

The aggressors kept an additional convoy of buses evacuating Mariupol residents and a fuel truck at the checkpoint in Vasylivka all day. The convoy will stay in Tokmak overnight and will continue to Berdyansk on Thursday morning.

Iryna Vereshchuk also reported that rescuers from the State Emergency Service and bus drivers, who have been illegally detained in Mangush on Tuesday, are to be released on Thursday.

51 people have been evacuated from the city of Hulyaipole (Zaporizhzhia region) to Zaporizhzhia, and humanitarian aid has reached the city.

769 people were evacuated from the villages of Velyka Dymerka and Bohdanivka to Brovary, and 150 people were evacuated from the village of Svetylnya to Brovary in the Kyiv region.

It was once again impossible to evacuate people from Borodyanka to Bila Tserkva due to violations of the ceasefire by the occupying forces.

672 people have been evacuated from the cities of Rubizhne, Lysychansk, Severodonetsk, Kremina and Nizhnye village to Bakhmut town in the Luhansk region. 60 tons of humanitarian aid have been delivered to these cities through humanitarian corridors.