Ukraine on Sunday managed to evacuate between 80 and 100 civilians, mostly women, children and the elderly, from the Mariupol steel plant with the help of the UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
Euskaraz irakurri: Azovstal altzairutegitik ebakuatutako lehen zibilak gaur iritsiko dira Zaporizhiara
Municipal technicians, doctors and humanitarian organizations are waiting at the refugee reception center in Zaporiya, about 220 kilometers from Mariupol, for the arrival of the convoy with the first civilians who have been hidden for two months in the Azovstal steel factory.
Ukraine on Sunday, with the help of the UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), managed to evacuate between 80 and 100 civilians, mostly women, children and the elderly, from the Mariupol steel plant after multiple disruptions and in what Kiev has called the most difficult operation since the start of the war, more than two months ago.
The convoy departed Sunday and is expected to arrive in Zaporiya today “where they will receive immediate humanitarian assistance, including psychological care,” said Saviano Abreu, a Ukrainian spokesman for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
Ukrainian authorities have also announced that this convoy will stop in the towns of Mangush (in the Donetsk region) and the Lunacharsky Ring near Berdiansk (east of Mariupol), to pick up civilians who want to leave.
Hundreds of civilians are still trapped in Azovstal, but assistant to the mayor of Mariupol, Petro Andrysuhcenko, said on Ukrainian television that Russia resumed shelling of the steel plant “as soon as the buses evacuating the civilians from the factory left”.
The military campaign continues
Russian forces have claimed to have shot down a Ukrainian MiG-29 fighter near Sloviansk, eastern Ukraine, where Moscow’s military campaign continues.
Russian air defense systems also shot down ten Ukrainian drones, two Tochka-U tactical missiles in Lugansk and a Smerch missile in Donetsk.
In addition, according to Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov, Russia has hit 38 military installations in Ukraine, including three missile and artillery weapons and ammunition depots, as well as nine concentration areas for soldiers and equipment, destroying 26 armored vehicles. Russia speaks of 160 Ukrainian soldiers killed in these attacks.
Ukraine, for its part, claims that it destroyed two Russian patrol boats sailing through the Black Sea. The attack on these ships was carried out from two Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles, according to the Supreme Commander of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Valerii Zaluzhny, on his Telegram channel.
Source: EITB
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