Humanitarian corridors open in Mariupol.
The Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, Iryna Vereshchuk, announced on her Telegram channel that an agreement had been reached to open humanitarian corridors for the evacuation of women, children and the elderly in Mariupol.
“Due to the catastrophic humanitarian situation in Mariupol, our efforts are more focused there today. “We have reached an agreement to open humanitarian corridors for women, children and the elderly,” Vereshchuk wrote.
Civilians have been instructed to pick them up at two o’clock, and that a convoy will move towards Zaporizhzhia via Berdiansk. And the mayor of Mariupol, Vadym Boychenko, has stated that in Mariupol there are still 100 thousand inhabitants while tens of thousands more have been killed.
He hopes to secure 90 buses to evacuate 6,000 civilians from the port city. The deputy mayor of Mariupol, Sergei Orlov, told that the Russians were using heavy bombs which, when detonated, could be heard up to 60 kilometers from Mariupol.