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Asharq Al-Awsat
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Ukraine Says Russia Beefing Up Its Forces, Agrees Nine Humanitarian Corridors From East

A man looks at many tank shells left by the Russian army in its withdrawal of Andriivka, village near Kiev. Photo: Celestino Arce Lavin/ZUMA Press Wire/dpa, April 9, 2022.

Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk on Sunday said that Kyiv had agreed the use of nine humanitarian corridors to help people to escape heavy fighting in the east of the country, including in private cars from Mariupol.

"All the routes for the humanitarian corridors in the Luhansk region will work as long as there is a ceasefire by the occupying Russian troops," Vereshchuk said in a statement on her Telegram channel, referring to separatist-controlled Luhansk.

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