Ukraine suspends civil evacuation due to security concerns

According to a top official, no civilians would be evacuated from war-torn Ukraine on Friday due to hazardous road conditions.

“Because of the insecurity along the routes, there will be no humanitarian corridors today, April 22,” Iryna Vereshchuk, Deputy Prime Minister, posted on the Telegram messaging app.

“To all those who are waiting for an evacuation, please be patient and hold on,” she said.

There were three buses that took 79 people out of the destroyed port city of Mariupol on Thursday.

It took over 24 hours to go the 225 kilometers (140 miles) from Zaporizhzhia, which takes three hours in peacetime.

Both Moscow and Kyiv accuse the other of sabotaging evacuation efforts on a regular basis.

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