The Russian military opened fire on buses that evacuated people from Mariupol. There are children among the wounded.

This was announced by the chairman of the Zaporozhye Regional State Administration Oleksandr Starukh.

" It was very difficult to cross the line of contact, because there were shelling. I hope we will be able to take people out and return them to normal living conditions,"

According to the chairman of the Zaporozhye Regional State Administration, four children were hospitalized as a result of shelling. Three of them were wounded during a fire in the Pologovsky district. Another child is in critical condition. His family, along with him, came under fire in the village of Kamenskoe.