President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that all approved humanitarian corridors in Ukraine worked on Saturday, RIA Novosti reported.

“All the humanitarian corridors that were agreed upon have worked. 12,729 people managed to be taken out today. The humanitarian cargo for Mariupol should be delivered tomorrow afternoon, due to the complexity of the route, we had to spend the night in Berdyansk,” Zelenskyy said.

On March 12, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that the Ukrainian armed forces would guarantee a “silence regime” for the evacuation of civilians from Mariupol.

On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he had decided to conduct a military special operation to protect the Donbass in response to a request for help from the heads of the LPR and DPR.

Ukraine severed diplomatic relations with Russia. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has submitted a draft law on general mobilization to the Verkhovna Rada.