7:11 p.m .: More than 80,000 people evacuated from Sumy and around Kiev
More than 80,000 people have been evacuated in the past two days from Sumy, a city in northeastern Ukraine, and around Kiev, the Ukrainian government announced on Thursday.
In the northeast, “from Trostianets, Sumy and Krasnopillia towards Poltava”, 150 km to the south, “we evacuated more than 60,000 people in two days”, declared Iryna Vereshchuk, the Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister, in a video posted on Telegram.
“From the surroundings of Kiev, nearly 20,000 people were evacuated”, she added, “from Borodianka, Boutcha, Irpin and Gostomel”, specifying that “three thousand inhabitants were (also) taken out, with difficulty” d ‘Izium, a city in eastern Ukraine.
