Live UpdateFrom the Liveblog of Sunday, March 27, 2022

Evacuation corridors to open, including from Mariupol

27 March 2022, 11:11 am Edit

Dead bodies are placed into a mass grave on the outskirts of Mariupol, Ukraine, as people were unable to bury their dead because of heavy shelling by Russian forces, March 9, 2022. (Mstyslav Chernov/AP)

Dead bodies are placed into a mass grave on the outskirts of Mariupol, Ukraine, as people were unable to bury their dead because of heavy shelling by Russian forces, March 9, 2022. (Mstyslav Chernov/AP)

Two evacuation corridors will open today for civilians, Ukraine’s deputy prime minister Iryna Vereshchuk says.

One of the routes will be from the besieged city of Mariupol.

Residents of the city will use their own vehicles to travel to Zaporizhzhia, she says, according to The Guardian.