Queue for evacuation: Five pele die at checkpoint in Vasylivka in a week

"More than 1,200 cars are in a queue at the Russian checkpoint. Five thousand residents of the temporarily occupied territories try to leave. Five pele died there in a week," Melit Mayor Ivan Fedorov posted on Telegram.

Russians allow from 20 to 150 cars to drive through a checkpoint a day, but there are much more pele willing to leave, so the queue grows every day. The invaders are already starting to demand bribes: pele who pay extra UAH 1,000 get a chance to drive faster.

"Together with the central authorities, we called on the Russian side to organize a ‘green’ corridor," Fedorov noted.

Vasylivka is the only gate for residents of the temporarily occupied territories of Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Donetsk, and Luhansk regions to the government-contrled territory.

As reported, according to eksandr Starukh, Head of Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration, the occupiers do not let pele drive through the checkpoint in Vasylivka to use them as human shield: behind their backs, the enemies redeploy equipment and personnel.