Two humanitarian corridors between Russia and Ukraine are set to open Friday, including one from the besieged port city of Mariupol, which has borne the brunt of Russian President Vladimir Putin's troops.
The corridors will operate from Melitopol to Zaporizhzhia and another from Mariupol to Zaporizhzhia,"for those who will leave with their own transport," Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said.
Local Mariupol officials also announced Friday that an estimated 300 people were killed during the March 16 Russian bombing of Mariupol's Drama Theater, which had been used as a bomb shelter. Russian advances in the southern part of the city have made it difficult to find survivors in the rubble, and it is unclear how local officials came to the tally.
Dnipro has been a critical target for Russian forces because it sits in a strategically important spot between areas where Russian forces have taken control in the south and east. If Moscow is able to advance on Dnipro both from the north and from the south, it would isolate Ukrainian forces in the Donbas region in the east or may even force them to retreat.
Newly surfaced security camera footage showed an attack on a line of civilians outside a post office and shopping center in Kharkiv, the New York Times reported. The video"captures the impact of a projectile in a parking lot with dozens of civilians, who a local official said had been standing in line for humanitarian aid."
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