• No evacuations of civilians from war torn Ukraine

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    No evacuations of civilians from war torn Ukraine

    Senior officials said Friday that
    there will be no evacuations of civilians on the roads in war-torn Ukraine due
    to the hazardous situation on the roads.

    "Because of the insecurity along the routes, there will be
    no humanitarian corridors today, April 22," Deputy Prime Minister Iryna
    Vereshchuk wrote on the Telegram messaging app.



    mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:#2E2E2E"> "To
    all those who are waiting for an evacuation, please be patient and hold on,"
    she said. 

    On
    Thursday, some 79 people, mostly women, were evacuated on three buses from the
    shattered port city of Mariupol.

    The
    225-kilometre (140 mile) journey to Zaporizhzhia -- which used to take three
    hours in peacetime -- took more than 24 hours.

    Moscow
    and Kyiv regularly accuse each other of torpedoing evacuation plans.