Vereshchuk: Humanitarian corridors have saved about a million people

"350,000 people got out by buses we organized along the corridors. Moreover, people were getting out by private cars. About a million people have already been saved thanks to humanitarian corridors over this period," Deputy Prime Minister – Minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine Iryna Vereshchuk said, Ukrinform reports.

According to the official, 250 service members and civilians have been already released from Russian captivity through exchanges.

As reported, more than 1,000 women, children and more than 500 wounded stay now at the Azovstal plant in Mariupol. Russian troops storm the plant, where Ukrainian defenders and civilians take shelter, with aircraft, artillery, tanks and try to advance by assault groups. On April 24, President Volodymyr Zelensky held a conversation with President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, underscoring the need to immediately evacuate civilians from Mariupol, particularly from Azovstal plant, and to exchange the blocked military immediately.

Mariupol experiences one of the biggest humanitarian catastrophes caused by Russia's aggression.

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