No evacuations of civilians from war torn Ukraine

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• Apr 22, 2022 | Sourav Boruah

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.