President’s Office: More than 6,200 people evacuated on Friday

"A total of 6,266 people have been evacuated today," Deputy Head of the President's Office Kyrylo Tymoshenko posted on Telegram, Ukrinform reports.

According to Tymoshenko’s data, 3,071 people were evacuated from Mariupol in Donetsk region.

Tymoshenko also informed that 285 people had been evacuated from Luhansk region: 60 people from Rubizhne, 1,300 – from Lysychansk, 52 – from Kreminna, and 38 – from Popasna.

In addition, 452 people were evacuated from Polohy, 180 people – from Vasylivka, 813 – from Melitopol, and 15 – from Berdiansk in Zaporizhzhia region.

Tymoshenko added that people, who had finally left Berdiansk and Melitopol by buses and private vehicles, were expected to arrive in Zaporizhzhia. According to him, they passed the last checkpoint of the occupying forces in Vasylivka.

The Deputy Head of the President's Office explained that 42 buses with Mariupol residents were coming from Berdiansk, 12 buses with local residents from Melitopol and 300 private vehicles.

On February 24, Russian president Putin started a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Russian invaders shell and destroy infrastructure, massively fire on residential areas of Ukrainian cities, towns, and villages using artillery, MLRS, ballistic missiles and aviation bombs.

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