Ukraine was able to evacuate more than 5,550 people from front-line cities on Sunday via nine humanitarian corridors, deputy prime minister Iryna Vereshchuk said in a video statement.
She said 3,950 were evacuated from towns and cities in the Kyiv region.
Ukrainian army says Russian troops are preparing for fresh attacks as people are evacuated from front-line cities via humanitarian corridors.
“The enemy is forming and moving strategic reserves to our borders,” the Ukrainian general staff said in a daily bulletin early on Monday, adding that fresh attacks were expected on Kharkiv, Sumy and the Kyiv suburb of Browari.
The Ukrainian side charged that Russian forces were destroying stationary military and civilian infrastructure in the country, in contravention of international humanitarian law.
President Volodymyr Zelensky says it is a “black day” after Russia shelled a military base in the western part of his country and less than 25km (15 miles) from the Polish border.
Zelensky said in his nightly address on Sunday that Russia fired 30 rockets at the Yavoriv military base. He said the attack killed 35 people and injured 134 injured others.
Zelensky said he had given Western leaders “clear warning” of the danger to the base. He warned “it is only a matter of time” before Russian missiles fall on NATO territory.
