(Paris = Yonhap News) Correspondent Choo Wang-hoon = Mayor Oleksandr Lysenko said that civilians started evacuating through the humanitarian corridor for the second day in private cars in Sumi, eastern Ukraine, where fierce fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces is taking place on the 9th (local time). Archyde.com reported that it was revealed in this video message.
On the previous day, regarding 5,000 civilians were evacuated through the humanitarian corridor opened between Sumi and Poltava to the southeast.
Russia and Ukraine agreed the day before to open 10 humanitarian routes to allow civilians to evacuate five cities besieged by Russian forces or in violent clashes, but only one has actually been evacuated from the Sumi-Voltava route.
Russia announced on the same day that it would implement a ceasefire to evacuate civilians, and Ukraine also announced that it had agreed to a ceasefire for 12 hours starting at 9:00 a.m. local time (4:00 p.m. Korean time).
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