The Mariúpol City Council, in eastern Ukraine, has announced that the evacuation of its 400,000 inhabitants will begin at noon local time, 11 a.m. in Spain, and that the humanitarian corridor will last until 9 p.m.
Already yesterday a five-hour ceasefire was decreed that was breached and that prevented the truce from taking place.
Previously, the militias of the self-proclaimed republic of Donetsk had announced this morning the opening shortly of the humanitarian corridors of both Mariupol and the city of Volnovaja, in the southeast of the country, now surrounded by guerrillas who help the Russian Army in its invasion of Ukraine.
The representative of the militias, Eduard Basurin, had assured that these corridors will open “this Sunday morning” as long as the Ukrainian forces resisting in these cities “give their subordinates the order to unblock the exits so that the civilian population can leave the place”, in statements collected by Interfax. Waiting to know if this evacuation also applies to Volnovakha, the Mariupol City Council has already advanced on its Telegram channel that the humanitarian evacuation route will be practically the same as the one announced on Saturday: it will end in the west, in Zaporizhia, after go through Nikolskoye, Pologi and Orejov along about 200 kilometers of route.
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Source: Lasexta
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