MOSCOW/KVIV • An evacuation effort from Ukraine’s port city of Mariupol was at least partly under way yesterday for civilians trapped for weeks by a Russian siege, according to an adviser to the mayor’s office, who said buses with civilians had left the city.
Russia had agreed to open the humanitarian corridor for the city, lifting a siege that has become a symbol of Ukraine’s agony, but the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) warned that the effort to evacuate civilians from Mariupol “remains extremely complex”, suggesting that a full evacuation was not yet under way.
“The Russian armed forces will reopen a humanitarian corridor from Mariupol to Zaporizhzhia on April 1 from 10am”, or 3pm Singapore time yesterday, the Russian defence ministry said yesterday.
The decision came after “a personal request from the French President (Emmanuel Macron) and German Chancellor (Olaf Scholz) to Russian President Vladimir Putin”, it said in a statement. Zaporizhzhia lies some 220km to the north-west of the port city on the Sea of Azov.
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