Ukraine opened six humanitarian corridors for the evacuation of civilians on Wednesday after achieving a ceasefire in those areas with the Russian governmentas reported in her Telegram account by Iryna Vereshchuk, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for the Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine.
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The corridors will be operational between 9 am and 9 pm (local time), explained the Ukrainian official, reports the local agency Ukrinform.
“At half past six in the morning (local time), we received a message from the Russian Federation about the approval of our previously proposed routes,” the senior official said before listing and detailing those corridors.
He also said that he had informed the International Committee of the Red Cross about the opening of those safe spaces and pointed out that “the military must cease fire” during the agreed hours in those zones.
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The areas where attacks must stop are between Energodar and Zaporizhia; Sumy, in the direction of the city of Poltava; Mariupol and Zaporiye; Volnovakha with Pokrovsk; and between Pasas and Lozova (in the Kharkiv region).
The sixth corridor would affect the Kiev region and includes a route that reaches Vorzel, Bucha, Borodyanka, Gostomel and Irpin, as well as Stoyanka and Belgorodka.
“I appeal to the Russian Federation: it has made a formal public commitment to a ceasefire starting at 9 a.m. on March 9, 2022,” the Ukrainian minister explained.
“We have had a negative experience because despite our commitments they did not work,” he added, referring to the breaches of these agreements by the Russians denounced by Ukraine in the Mariupol area.
He warned that he hopes that today the promise of the Russian Federation will be fulfilled and that people will be able to leave the places where they are now hiding “from the devastating hail and fires that have caused the attacks.”
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He also referred, according to Ukrinform, to the city of Vorzel, where there is an orphanage with 55 children and the caretaker staff. “This is a special operation that will be carried out to evacuate this orphanage. We have asked the Russian Armed Forces to fulfill their commitments and cease fire” in order to do so, he reiterated.
Ukraine has repeatedly denounced the ineffectiveness of these corridors due to non-compliance by the Russian side, which continues to carry out attacks in the affected areas. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began, more than two million citizens, according to UN figures, have left the country, most of them to neighboring nations such as Poland, Moldova or Romania.
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