Deputy Prime Minister - Minister of Reintegration of the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine Iryna Vereshchuk reported about one hundred Turkish citizens who still remain in the besieged city of Mariupol of Donetsk region, while, according to her, earlier part of citizens of this country, as well as citizens of Greece, managed to leave the city as part of the evacuation.

"The Greeks managed to evacuate to a certain extent when the corridors were still open more or less in early March, then they managed to evacuate a little bit the Turkish citizens. In a word, foreigners who were in Mariupol, as well as Ukrainians, had the same conditions for evacuation: difficult, very difficult, grueling, but still, to a certain extent, they evacuated. Now, when we talk about how many foreigners are left, we know that 100 Turkish citizens are waiting to be evacuated," Vereshchuk said during a telethon on Monday.

This, she said, was what prompted Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's attempt to negotiate with Russian President Vladimir Putin to evacuate. "There are certain intentions - and indeed there are - to Erdogan's example, who promises that he will help both his citizens and our citizens, particularly children and women, to get out. But we have already heard this so many times that I am already very cautious in my optimism, I do not want to get my hopes up too much - let it happen and then we will talk about it together," said Deputy Prime Minister.

Vereshchuk said that the attempts of representatives of other countries to agree on the organization of evacuation corridors from Mariupol have so far been unsuccessful. She also noted that the Russian occupants do not allow anyone to enter Mariupol. "There is no corridor, no arrangements that would allow 20-30 thousand people to leave at one time," the deputy prime minister said.