At least 50 Ukrainian civilians reach a temporary camp in Russian-held territory after being evacuated from a ruined steelworks in Mariupol.
At least 50 Ukrainian civilians have reached the relative safety of a temporary camp in Russian-held territory after being evacuated from a ruined steelworks in Mariupol, where the United Nations said a "safe passage operation" was in progress.The war-torn city is under Russian control but some fighters and civilians remained holed up in the Azovstal steel works
A Russian Defence Ministry facility in the southern Belgorod region, bordering Ukraine is reported to be on fire Images showed the civilians arriving in the village of Bezimenne in the Donetsk Region, around 30 kilometres east of Mariupol, with Ukrainian number plates in a convoy with Russian forces and vehicles with United Nations symbols.
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said 100 more people were en route from the besieged steel works. Russia declared victory in Mariupol on April 21 even as hundreds of Ukrainian troops and civilians took shelter in the city's Azovstal steel works, a vast Soviet-era complex with a network of bunkers and tunnels, where they have been trapped with little food, water or medicine.Negotiations to evacuate the civilians had repeatedly broken down in recent weeks, with Russia and Ukraine blaming each other.
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