Ukrainian residents evacuated from Mariupol along the humanitarian corridor at a temporary accommodation facility in the village of Bezymennoe in the Donetsk People's Republic. Archival photoMOSCOW, March 1169 people, including 17 children, left Mariupol through the humanitarian corridor during the day, although officially it does not work, said Eduard Basurin, a representative of the People's Militia of the Donetsk People's Republic. «Through the humanitarian corridor. You probably already know that it does not officially work, but there is also a good thing — people are slowly starting to leave from there. Over the past day, 69 people have left, 17 of them are children, this is also, one might say, positive,» Basurin said. on the air of «Russia 24». President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, the civilian population is not in danger. With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive. But the occupation of Ukraine is out of the question, the President of Russia emphasized.
