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Post by Admin on May 1, 2022 19:20:40 GMT
Dozens of people, including women and children, have been evacuated from a steel plant in the pulverised city of Mariupol. Two groups of civilians left the residential area around the Azovstal steelworks – the last Ukrainian stronghold in the bombed-out ruins of the southern Ukrainian city – on Saturday, Russian news agencies reported citing the defence ministry on Sunday. The ministry said a total of 46 civilians left the area and were “provided with food and shelter”, RIA and TASS reported. Those brought out included 19 adults and six children. No further details were given. Many efforts to arrange a ceasefire to allow residents to leave the city have broken down, with Moscow and Kyiv repeatedly blaming each other. A leader with the Azov Battalion, the Ukrainian unit defending the plant, said 20 civilians were evacuated during a ceasefire, though it was not clear if he was referring to the same group as the Russian news reports. “Twenty civilians, women and children … have been transferred to a suitable place and we hope that they will be evacuated to Zaporizhzhia, on territory controlled by Ukraine,” Sviatoslav Palamar said in a video posted on the battalion’s Telegram channel. He reported heavy bombardment of the site overnight and said fighters were still going through the debris searching for civilians to rescue. “All night, the enemy artillery bombarded the site,” he said. “The Azov regiment is still clearing the rubble to get civilians out. We hope this procedure will continue that we will manage to evacuate all the civilians.”
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Post by Admin on May 2, 2022 14:18:43 GMT
Ukrainian civilians evacuated from Mariupol steelworks bunker - BBC News 26,611 views May 2, 2022 Dozens of civilians have been evacuated from Mariupol to both Russia-controlled and Ukraine-controlled territory after weeks under siege.
Some have left the Azovstal steelworks, the last hold-out of Ukrainian troops in the strategically significant city.
Russia said dozens of civilians have arrived in a village it controls.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said a large group is also on its way to Zaporizhzhia, which Ukraine maintains control of.
The United Nations confirmed that a "safe passage operation" had begun to evacuate the citizens on Saturday, and that it was involved alongside the Red Cross.
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Post by Admin on May 3, 2022 17:09:41 GMT
UN confirms evacuations of 100 Ukrainians from besieged Mariupol plant - BBC News 8,931 views May 4, 2022 About 101 people have been successfully evacuated from the Azovstal steel plant, a UN humanitarian official has confirmed.
They said most of the evacuees are now in Zaporizhzhia, after spending more than 60 days underneath Azovstal steelworks plant in Mariupol.
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Post by Admin on May 3, 2022 18:52:11 GMT
Russian forces Tuesday began storming the steel mill containing the last pocket of resistance in Mariupol, Ukrainian defenders said, just as scores of civilians evacuated from the bombed-out plant over the weekend reached safer territory and recounted days and nights filled with dread from constant shelling. Osnat Lubrani, the U.N. humanitarian coordinator for Ukraine, said that thanks to the evacuation effort, “101 women, men, children and older persons could finally leave the bunkers below the Azovstal steelworks and see the daylight after two months.” One evacuee said she went to sleep there every night afraid she wouldn’t wake up. “You can’t imagine how scary it is when you sit in the shelter, in a wet and damp basement which is bouncing, shaking,” Yelena Tsybulchenko said upon arriving in the Ukrainian-controlled city of Zaporizhzhia, about 140 miles (230 kilometers) northwest of Mariupol, in a convoy of buses and ambulances. She added: “We were praying to God that missiles fly over our shelter, because if it hit the shelter, all of us would be done.” The news for those left behind was more grim. Ukrainian commanders said Russian forces backed by tanks began storming the sprawling plant, which includes a maze of tunnels and bunkers spread out over 11 square kilometers (4 square miles). How many Ukrainian fighters were holed up inside was unclear, but the Russians put the number at about 2,000 in recent weeks, and 500 were reported to be wounded. A few hundred civilians also remained there, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said. “We’ll do everything that’s possible to repel the assault, but we’re calling for urgent measures to evacuate the civilians that remain inside the plant and to bring them out safely,” Sviatoslav Palamar, deputy commander of Ukraine’s Azov Regiment, said on the messaging app Telegram. He added that throughout the night, the plant was hit with naval artillery fire and airstrikes. Two civilian women were killed and 10 civilians wounded, he said.
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Post by Admin on May 5, 2022 18:40:32 GMT
#Mariupol #Azovstal #Ukraine Russia Announces Three-Day Cease-Fire For Civilians To Evacuate Mariupol Steel Plant 102,872 views May 5, 2022 Russia has announced a three-day cease-fire at the blockaded steel plant in Mariupol, allowing Ukrainian civilians who have been holed up there for weeks to evacuate along humanitarian corridors. NBC News’ Matt Bradley explains why Russia has agreed to a cease-fire in the besieged city and whether it is likely to hold up.
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