City council says agreed ceasefire not yet being observed along entire evacuation route
Officials in Ukraine’s strategic port city of Mariupol have said they will start to evacuate civilians after Russian forces announced a temporary ceasefire.
In an earlier statement the council called on “all drivers leaving the city, to contribute as much as possible to the evacuation of the civilian population – take people with you, fill vehicles as much as possible”. Mariupol city council said civilians would be able to proceed towards the city of Zaporizhzhia and use specially arranged bus routes as well as their own cars. Saturday’s evacuation would be the first of several stages, it said.
Located on the Sea of Azov, the city of 450,000 represents a potential strategic advantage for Moscow’s invasion, connecting it to the Russian forces coming from annexed Crimea, as well as to the troops in the Donbas.the attack is still so intense that dead bodies lie uncollected, those hiding in shelters are running out of food, and about 90% of the city is damaged by bombing, local MP Dmytro Lubinets said.
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