Kyiv, March 19: A humanitarian corridor for evacuation was opened on Saturday in Ukraine’s Luhansk region, said Governor Serhiy Gaiday. The governor said a “regime of silence” has been agreed from 9am (local time), according to international media.
He said, “The Russians continue the chaotic irregular artillery shelling of our cities. “However, we are waiting until 9 am, when the ‘silence regime’ should be established, to begin the evacuation of the region’s residents, to bring food, water and medicine to those who remain.
“The humanitarian corridor has been agreed at a high level. I hope that the agreements reached by the Russians will be respected.” Meanwhile, around 40 Ukrainian soldiers were killed in Russian air strike on on an army barracks in Mykolaiv. The Guardian quoted Mayor of Mykolaiv Oleksandr Senkevich as saying on Friday that several villages in the region had been occupied and the city had been under heavy fire, calling it a “difficult day”.
According to the Armed Forces, its air defences have destroyed at least 12 Russian air targets – two planes, three helicopters, three drones and four cruise missiles. The Guardian quoted local reports citing an adviser to the head of the President’s office added that armed forces had also hit the Chornobaivka airfield, where Russia had placed part of its fleet – for the sixth time. A member of the Russian military was killed in the Ukrainian town of Chernobayevka after an artillery strike, said the General Staff of the Armed Forces. Lieutenant General Andrei Mordvichev, commander of the 8th Combined Arms Army of the Southern Military District of the Russian Armed Forces was killed, it added. UNI
