The first stage of the evacuation from the city of SumyMOSCOW, March 12 Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Irina Vereshchuk announced that on Saturday the next humanitarian corridors for the evacuation of people from the settlements of Kiev, Sumy and Zaporozhye regions are opened. «, Vereshchuk said at a briefing. According to her, evacuation will also be carried out from the settlements of Andreevka, Makarov and Borodyanka of the Kiev region to Zhytomyr, and from the settlements of Trostyanets, Lebedin, Konotop, Bolshaya Pisarevka, Krasnopolye of the Sumy region — to Poltava. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on 24 February. 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.
