Details of Saturday evacuation from Mariupol

Olha Hlushchenko – Saturday, 23 April 2022, 07:00

Evacuation from Mariupol is set to begin at 11:00 on Saturday, 23 April.

Source: Mariupol City Council

Details: Evacuation will begin at 11:00; people are asked to assemble in front of Port-City shopping mall.

At 12:00, a convoy of buses will leave Mariupol, moving along the route Mariupol-Manhush-Berdiansk-Tokmak-Orekhiv-Zaporizhzhia.

Women, children, and the elderly will be evacuated.

A preliminary agreement has been reached for people to join the evacuation convoy in their own cars.

Earlier: On 21 April Mariupol citizens could not be evacuated.

On 20 April evacuation buses with 79 evacuated Mariupol citizens left the besieged city and entered  Ukrainian-controlled territory.

Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk announced on 22 April that the humanitarian corridor from Mariupol might operate again on Saturday, 23 April