More than 170 civilians from Mariupol, including about 40 evacuees from the Azovstal steelworks at this port in southeastern Ukraine that is almost entirely under Russian control, arrived in Zaporizhia on Sunday night, a AFP journalist.
The evacuees, some with small children, got off the white buses that took them to the parking lot of a shopping center in this large city in south-eastern Ukraine, which has become a reception center for people. fleeing areas occupied by the Russian army.
Aid workers escorted the elderly along with an elderly woman in a wheelchair.
A total of 174 civilians arrived aboard 8 buses from the hell of Mariupolsaid in the process on Twitter the United Nations humanitarian coordinator for Ukraine, Osnat Lubrani.
As a result of this new operation, the total number of people evacuated from the area has reached more than 600.he accepted in a press release from the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs of the United Nations.
On Friday, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk spoke 50 women, children and elderly people from Azovstal were released from Azovstal.
Our work, however, is not yet donesaid Ms. Lubrani, that’s for sure dozens of people who wanted to join the convoy over the past few days were unable to do so.
On Saturday, kyiv announced that all civilian women, all children and the elderly had been evacuated from the huge Azovstal metallurgical complex, the last pocket of resistance of Ukrainian forces against the Russian army in the devastated city of Mariupol.
This part of Mariupol’s humanitarian mission is overaccepted Ms. Vereshchuk on social networks, while President Volodymyr Zelensky stressed that the wounded and medical personnel still need to be evacuated.
Source: Radio-Canada
