Almost 7,300 people evacuated through humanitarian corridors today – Vereshchuk

Almost 7,300 people were evacuated through humanitarian corridors on Sunday, March 20.

Deputy Prime Minister - Minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories Iryna Vereshchuk said this at a briefing, an Ukrinform correspondent reported.

"Four out of seven humanitarian corridors were open today. A total of 7,295 people were evacuated," the official said.

According to Vereshchuk, 3,985 Mariupol residents arrived in the city of Zaporizhzhia from Berdiansk by buses and by private transport. Eleven buses with people from Mariupol arrived in Zaporizhzhia.

The official also informed that 2,000 people had been evacuated from the village of Bobryk to Brovary town in Kyiv region, and 1,310 people had been evacuated from the village of Tarasivka. At the same time, the evacuation from Borodianka to Bila Tserkva was disrupted for the second day in a row due to ceasefire violation by Russian forces.

Vereshchuk also noted that humanitarian aid from Kharkiv was successfully delivered to the village of Rohan.

On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the beginning of a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Russian troops have been shelling and destroying key infrastructure facilities, conducting massive shelling of residential areas of Ukrainian cities and villages using artillery, multiple rocket launchers and ballistic missiles.

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