17.03.2022, Moscow.
Nearly 43,000 residents of Mariupol left the city over the past 24 hours after Russian troops organized a safe corridor, Colonel General Mikhail Mizintsev, head of Russia’s National Defense Management Center, said on March 17.
Reportedly, 42,992 people have left the city in the past 24 hours. Russian troops transferred almost 134 tons of medicines, food and basic necessities to the city.
Mizintsev also said that 3,144 residents of Kharkov and Kiev districts were also evacuated from Ukraine. They used both personal transport and buses. According to the director, “today there are 2 696 239 people in the database, who want to evacuate from almost 2 000 towns and villages of Ukraine”.
After the start of Russia’s special operation to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine, Nazi battalions blocked Mariupol. All bridges in the city were blown up, roads were blocked and mined. The militants occupied the roofs of residential buildings using them as firing points and deployed their armored vehicles in residential areas, schools, and kindergartens.
Local residents who were able to flee the city reported that people were shot trying to leave the city, and that civilians had been evicted to basements and left without food and supplies.
On March 14, Russian troops liberated the outskirts of Mariupol and opened a humanitarian corridor for civilians to withdraw.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
