LVIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that Russian troops were seeding northern areas of Ukraine with mines as Moscow increasingly focused its offensive thrust on the eastern Donbas region — home of two self-proclaimed republics loyal to Russia.
Meantime, as shelling and attacks continued across the country, new evacuations were planned from war-ravaged areas in the north and east, including the devastated port city of Mariupol.
According to Zelenskyy, more than 6,000 people were evacuated from war zones Friday via so-called humanitarian corridors, exit routes agreed upon by both Ukrainian and Russian officials. More than half of those evacuees were from Mariupol.
