More than 6,426 people evacuated from Mariupol arrived in Zaporozhye on March 16. This was announced at a briefing by the Minister for the Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine Irina Vereshchuk.

" Given the situation, a gathering was organized of people who got out of the blocked Mariupol to Berdyansk. Now all 15 buses with Mariupol residents have arrived in Zaporozhye, where they are provided with the necessary assistance,” she said..

Among those who arrived in Zaporozhye - 2039 children. Vereshchuk stressed that food and medicines were left in Berdyansk, where help points are organized for everyone who continues to leave the besieged city..

She also clarified that negotiations on a ceasefire and the opening of humanitarian corridors will continue on Thursday.. In addition, it is planned to organize corridors for the delivery of humanitarian aid to the blocked settlements of the Kharkiv and Kiev regions..