Approximately 240,000 Mariupol residents evacuated privately at the start of the war, followed by 60,000 evacuated via humanitarian corridors to Berdiansk and Zaporizhzhia, including 3,500 since 25 March, with evacuees leaving under shelling without a ceasefire.

140,000 civilians left Mariupol at the start of the war while transport was available

Another 100,000 civilians left subsequently before humanitarian corridors organized

60,000 civilians evacuated via humanitarian corridors to Ukrainian-controlled territory

3,500 people evacuated since 25 March 2022

Evacuations occurred without a ceasefire with shells exploding around civilians

Around 300 people were killed after Russia shelled the theater used as a bomb shelter

Mariupol City Council cited witnesses as the source for the casualty figure

The Mariupol Drama Theater was used as a bomb shelter at the time of the shelling

Two humanitarian corridors worked in the Donbas region on March 27, allowing more than one thousand people to be evacuated to safe territory.