Ukrainian authorities say they evacuated 9,145 people from its major cities through humanitarian corridors on Friday, the 23rd day of Russia's invasion, APA reports citing BBC.
According to a post on Telegram by Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy head of the president's office, the numbers include nearly 5,000 residents of the southern port city of Mariupol, which has been under constant assault by Russian forces.
The senior official added more than 4,000 people fled Sumy, in the northeast, while some 500 others were bused out of Zaporizhzhia, where Europe's largest nuclear plant is located.
The BBC has not independently verified these claims.
The figures presented by Tymoshenko far exceed the less than 4,000 people that his office said managed to escape on Thursday.
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