Some 20,000 people were able to leave Mariupol, a major port city in southeastern Ukraine besieged by Russian forces, on Tuesday via a humanitarian corridor, the presidency announced.
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“Today around 20,000 people left Mariupol by car using a humanitarian corridor. Of the 4,000 cars that have left the city, 570 have already arrived in Zaporozhe
, some 230 km to the northwest, said in a statement the deputy head of the Ukrainian presidential administration, Kyrylo Tymoshenko.