Evacuation corridors to open in Ukraine’s Sumy region

Kiev, March 15 : Ukrainian authorities said that evacuation corridors will operate from four cities in the Sumy region, where heavy fighting has continued since Russias war started on February 24.

In a social media post, Dmytro Zhyvytskyi, head of the Sumy Regional State Administration, said the corridors from the cities of Konotop, Shostka, Trostyanets, and Lebedyn will be operational from 9 a.

m.to 9 p.m.No evacuation took place in the region on Monday due to continued Russian attacks, said Ukayinska Pravda newspaper.Last week, approximately 5,000 civilians, including 1,700 foreign students - many of them from India - were evacuated from Sumy through a humanitarian corridor towards Poltava.

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