• Evacuees stand under a destroyed bridge as they flee the city of Irpin, northwest of Kyiv, on Monday. Ukraine dismissed Moscow's offer to set up humanitarian corridors from several bombarded cities on Monday after it emerged some routes would lead refugees into Russia or Belarus. | AFP-JIJI
    Evacuees stand under a destroyed bridge as they flee the city of Irpin, northwest of Kyiv, on Monday. Ukraine dismissed Moscow's offer to set up humanitarian corridors from several bombarded cities on Monday after it emerged some routes would lead refugees into Russia or Belarus. | AFP-JIJI

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LVIV/IRPIN, Ukraine – Ukrainians boarded buses to flee the besieged eastern city of Sumy on Tuesday, the first evacuation from a Ukrainian city through a humanitarian corridor agreed with Russia.

Ukraine said a separate convoy of 30 buses was also headed to Mariupol to evacuate residents from that southern port, which has been encircled without food, water, power or heat and subjected to relentless bombardment for a week.

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