From Sumy, Enerhodar and Kyiv
Zelenskyy: 35,000 civilians flee through corridors
03/10/2022, 03:15 am
Two million people have already fled Ukraine. According to Ukrainian President Selenskyj, 35,000 civilians have now managed to escape through humanitarian corridors. The federal government is trying to digitally arrange accommodation for Ukrainians who have arrived in Germany.
At least 35,000 civilians were evacuated from cities besieged by Russian troops last Wednesday, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. In a video address on the night Zelenskyy said that three humanitarian corridors allowed residents to leave the cities of Sumy in the northeast, Enerhodar in the southeast and areas around the capital Kyiv.
On Tuesday, for the first time, civilians could be brought to safety via an escape corridor from the fiercely contested city of Sumy in north-eastern Ukraine. As a result, Kyiv and Moscow announced the establishment of several other escape corridors for Wednesday, including for the cities of Irpin, Bucha and Hostomel near Kyiv. Several attempts to create safe escape routes had previously failed. Moscow and Kyiv blamed each other for this.
According to UN figures, a total of around 2.2 million people have fled Ukraine before the Russian war of aggression. Reports about the bombing of a children’s hospital in the port city of Mariupol, which has been under siege for nine days, have recently caused a stir. According to the Ukrainian administration, more than 1,200 civilians have been killed in the fighting in the city.
Berlin receives 13,000 refugees every day
According to the federal government, a total of 200,000 private and public accommodations are currently available in Germany for refugees from Ukraine who have already arrived in Germany. “We are in the process of making these offers accessible on a digital platform. This will be available very soon,” said Interior Secretary Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter of the “Stuttgarter Zeitung” and the “Stuttgarter Nachrichten”. As with the refugee crisis in 2015, the federal government does not want to let the municipalities down, emphasized the State Secretary.
But “I can’t say now that we already have a package. That has to be discussed in the departmental groups and discussed with the federal states and municipalities.” Cities like Berlin, where a particularly large number of refugees arrive, should be further relieved: “The trains have to be better distributed in the next few days. Starting tomorrow, the Hanover/Laatzen station should also be approached,” Black Lühr-Sutter told the newspapers.
According to the Governing Mayor Franziska Giffey, more than 13,000 Ukrainian war refugees have arrived in Berlin every day for the past three days. Most come by bus and train from Poland. As of Wednesday morning, more than 80,000 people from Ukraine who are fleeing the Russian war of aggression had already been registered across Germany.