Donetsk: 96 people evacuated from Mariupol

The regional defense headquarters of the Donetsk People’s Republic announced that 96 people have been evacuated from the Ukrainian city of Mariupol and its suburbs during the past 24 hours.

Russia Today website quoted the headquarters as saying in a statement today, “During the past 24 hours, 96 people were evacuated from the city of Mariupol and its suburbs, including 20 children, and all of them were transferred to Bizimeno. They are currently in the center set up by the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Donetsk People’s Republic to help displaced civilians.

The statement indicated that between March 5 and March 13, 863 people were evacuated from Mariupol to the Bizimenoi assistance point.

Earlier, the authorities in the Donetsk People’s Republic warned that the militants of the Ukrainian Azov Battalion do not allow civilians in Mariupol to exit through the humanitarian corridors and use them as human shields, in addition to laying mines in the area.

The Regional Defense Command of the Donetsk People’s Republic announced that its air defense units managed to intercept a Ukrainian missile (Tochka-O) and prevented it from striking a civilian target in the republic.

The leadership said in a statement today, reported by RIA Novosti Agency, that the fragments of the Ukrainian missile fell near a local school, pointing out that the Ukrainian militants once again used these tactical missiles to bombard Shakhtyorsk.

It is noteworthy that the Ukrainian forces use these Soviet-made tactical missiles to bomb civilian facilities and vital infrastructure sites in the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics.

Inas Abdulkareem