Russian invaders fired multiple rocket launchers at residents of Mariupol, Donetsk region, who were evacuated to Zaporizhia, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported.

"Today, at about 3:30 p.m., Russian occupiers-monsters fired at a convoy of civilians evacuated from the city of Mariupol to the city of Zaporizhia with BM-21 Grad multiple rocket launchers. According to preliminary information, there are dead. There are children among the injured and wounded. The number of victims is being specified," the General Staff said on Telegram.

At the same time, the Pryamiy TV channel reports that the occupation troops fired multiple rocket launchers at a convoy of cars moving from Mariupol near Zaporizhia.

"So far, five wounded are known, one child is in serious condition. It is being operated on with the remote involvement of doctors from Okhmatdyt," the report says.

The death toll is not reported.

Earlier, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine Iryna Vereschuk said that no response had been received to the proposals sent the day before to the Red Cross on opening humanitarian corridors on March 16, and therefore the question of organizing humanitarian corridors for Izium and Mariupol remained open, and the evacuation of people could not be safe.