Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Irina Vereshchuk said that on March 25, more than 7.3 thousand people were evacuated from Mariupol and Melitopol through two humanitarian corridors or left on their own.
According to Vereshchuk, 2,800 traveled from Mariupol to Zaporizhzhya by their own transport, 4,000 Mariupol residents were taken by bus to Zaporozhye from Berdyansk (a neighboring city of Mariupol under the control of the Russian army), and another 531 people were taken to Zaporozhye from Melitopol.
Vereshchuk said that in just a week, Ukraine managed to evacuate 38,000 people from the war zones.