Kiev, Ukraine’s government announced setting up nine safe corridors in the regions of Luhansk and Donetsk to enable citizens to evacuate the area.

One route has been set up for private vehicles to leave the embattled city of Mariupol for nearby Zaporizhzhia, Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said today.

A further eight corridors leading to the city of Bakhmut had been set up in the Luhansk region, she said.

An evacuation train from the city of Pokrovsk in Donetsk is also due to run today, heading first to Kiev before continuing to Chop in south-western Ukraine, according to the government.

Such routes are announced on a daily basis but have proved difficult to implement.

Source: Oman News Agency