Civilians evacuated from the besieged Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol have described their harrowing ordeal after arriving in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia. “Mariupol was my city, but now it is gone, there is nothing.'
CNN's team in Zaporizhzhia saw the arrival of five buses with evacuees and witnessed emotional scenes on Tuesday, as people emerged from the buses and were greeted by volunteers. Their arrival was also confirmed by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs . After getting off the buses, evacuees headed to tents that the Ukrainian government has set up to help them with the next part of their journey.
"It survived the Holodomor [Stalin's policy of collectivization that led to the Great Famine, where millions of Ukrainians died of starvation], deportation, World War I, World War II -- even the Nazis did not destroy it. And the fascists did not destroy Mariupol. But the Russians came and destroyed it," she said.Evacuees disembark a bus after arriving in Zaporizhzhia.The family had three apartments, she said."And it all burned down, everything burned down.
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