Most humanitarian corridors for evacuees not holding: Zelenskyy's adviser
Ukraine has evacuated about 40,000 people in the last 24 hours, but most of the agreed-upon humanitarian corridors in six cities in Ukraine are still not holding, Ukrainian presidential adviser David Arakhmia said Wednesday.
Officials had hoped to move at least 100,000 women and children out of the country in that time frame but were not able to because the corridors were not clear, he said.
The northern city of Sumy was again the only place where a substantial evacuation was able to take place, with local authorities estimating 20,000 people left Wednesday.
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An evacuation column was also able to bring people out of Energodar, the city that is home to the nuclear power station attacked last week, taking them to Zaporizhzhia.
An evacuation attempt from the besieged city of Mariupol again had to be abandoned, while in the region north of Kyiv, 50 buses attempting to evacuate people via a new humanitarian corridor became trapped after Russia forces blocked them. It was unclear whether those buses were eventually permitted to continue on to Kyiv. Some people, including 50 children, were evacuated today.
About 250 people were evacuated from the northeastern town of Izyum near Kharkiv, the advisor said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said humanitarian corridors have again been agreed upon with temporary cease-fires for Thursday.