More than 80,000 people were evacuated from Kiev and Sumy County

“We have evacuated more than 60 thousand people within two days from the northeastern town of Sumy and the locations around”, Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Verschuk said in a video posted on the Telegram message app.

“Around 20,000 people were evacuated from the northwest areas of the capital, Kiev”, she said, and added that another 3,000 were barely evacuated from Izyum, a town in eastern Ukraine.

Earlier in the day, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said about 60,000 people have been evacuated from different cities throughout the country.

And Ukrainian Interior Minister Denys Montastyrsky said over 400,000 civilians have been evacuated to Ukraine so far, mainly from active battle zones.

“They are mostly evacuated from areas where there is continued fighting”, he said.

According to the United Nations, some 2.3 million people have left Ukraine in the last two weeks, when Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a war against Russia's former Soviet neighbour on 24 February. / REL