Plans to evacuate 6,000 people from Mariupol
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14:09 20 Apr, 2022
Planing to evacuate six thousand people from Mariupol
More now on a preliminary agreement for a humanitarian corridor to evacuate women, children and the elderly from Mariupol.
Qazet.az reports that, Ukraine hopes to send 90 buses to the besieged city on Wednesday to evacuate about 6,000 women, children and elderly people, the city's mayor says on national television.
Vadym Boichenko says he hopes a preliminary agreement with Russia on establishing a safe corridor would be confirmed and respected.
‘About 100,000 civilians remain in Mariupol and tens of thousands have been killed in the Russian siege of the city’, he adds.