Ukraine negotiating swap of 38 seriously wounded fighters from Azovstal

KYIV:Coordinator of actions on humanitarian corridors from the President’s Office, Tetiana Lomakina, said that negotiations on the evacuation of medics and wounded from the territory of the Azovstal metallurgical plant in the temporarily besieged Mariupol (Donetsk region) are continuing.

"Negotiations are underway on an important second stage of the humanitarian operation to rescue medical workers and the wounded. This is about 500 people. And also about the opening of humanitarian corridors that Mariupol residents need. And there are still about 100,000 people in the city. They are mostly elderly people, women and children," Lomakina said during a briefing at the media center Ukraine on Thursday.

She recalled that earlier, with the support of the UN and the Red Cross, about 300 people were evacuated from Azovstal.

In turn, Deputy Prime Minister for the Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine Iryna Vereschuk later clarified that at the moment there are negotations on the evacuation of only 38 seriously wounded servicemen from the territory of the plant.

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