The Sumy Regional State Administration head, Dmytro Zhyvytskyy, announced that the first evacuation convoy had left Sumy at 9:00 am.
"You can go by your transport; the second column is formed to leave at about 1:00 pm," he said.
The departure from Sumy takes place from the pedagogical university. We are organising evacuation buses.
As you know, Iryna Vereshchuk, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Reintegration of Temporary Occupied Territories, stated that a humanitarian convoy for the city of Sumy should be open today from 09:00 am to 09:00 pm.
The route of the humanitarian convoy for people's evacuation is one: Sumy - Holubivka - Lokhvytsia - Lubny - Poltava. The delegation officially decided on the following conditions with Russia in an official letter to the International Committee of the Red Cross. It didn't agree on any other routes.
At the same time, according to Vereshchuk, there is already information that the Russian side has planned to disrupt the work of humanitarian convoys. The occupiers are preparing manipulations with the route to force people to go the other way.