The evacuation of civilians will be carried out via six humanitarian corridors, Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister Irina Vereshchuk has said, TASS reports.
"The military agreed to cease fire from 09:00 till 21:00," she told a news briefing on Wednesday.
Ceasefire is introduced along the following routes: Energodar-Zaporozhye, Sumy-Poltava, Mariupol-Zaporozhye, Volnovakha-Pokrovsk and Izyum-Lozovaya and also towards Kyiv from five communities: Vorzel, Bucha, Borodyanka, Irpen and Gostomel.
“At 5:30 in the morning, we received a message from Russia that our proposed routes had been agreed upon. We sent our letter to the International Committee of the Red Cross, and at 9 a.m., Prime Minister Denis Schmigal informed the ICRC chief, Peter Maurer, of the agreement. The military has agreed to cease fire from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.,” the deputy prime minister said in a video message, Interfax reports.
