Vereshchuk announced the opening of humanitarian corridors from Mariupol, Volnovakha, Energodar, Izyum, Vorzel, Bucha, Borodyanka, Irpen, Gostomel

Vereshchuk announced the opening of humanitarian corridors in a statement published on Facebook by the Office of the President of Ukraine.

The Minister said that, in accordance with the agreements, a ceasefire from 9:00 on the routes: Enerhodar-Zaporizhzhya, Sumy-Poltava, Mariupol-Zaporizhzhya, Volnovakha-Pokrovsk, Izyum-Lozova, as well as from the cities of Kyiv region Vorzel, Bucha, Borodyanka, Irpin, Gostomel to Kyiv through the settlements of Stoyanka, Belogorodka and directly to Kyiv.

"At 5:30 we received a message from the Russian Federation about the approval of our previously proposed routes, as well as a message from the International Red Cross with such an agreement," Vereshchuk said.

The Minister appealed to the Russian Federation to abide by its commitments, recalling that the occupiers had previously neglected the agreements.

"I appeal to the Russian Federation. You have undertaken official public commitments to cease fire from 9:00 on March 9. We have a negative experience when even the undertaken commitments did not work. This is the direction of Mariupol-Zaporozhye, as well as Volnovakha. I was approached by the residents of Volnovakha and asked that today the promise of the Russian Federation be fulfilled and that people be able to leave the places where they are now hiding from the devastating fire that is killing them. There are currently 55 children and 26 staff members, a separate special operation to evacuate the orphanage, and we urge the Russian Armed Forces to honor its commitments and end the fighting from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., yes, as we agreed," Vereshchuk said.

Finally, the Minister called on Ukrainians to trust only information from official sources of the Ukrainian government.

We remind that earlier the chairman of Sumy OVA Dmitry Zhyvytsky reported that negotiating groups agreed to the continuation of action of a humanitarian corridor on March 9 from Sumy to Poltava.