The first civilians to be evacuated from the steel mill have arrived in Zaporizhzhya. Still, the mayor of Mariupol has confirmed that 200 civilians are still trapped in the metallurgical plant.
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Russian forces have launched the latest attack on the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, both the Azov regiment, which defends the steel plant, and Ukrainian police sources reported today.
“All night they bombed us from the air, two civilians, women, died, and now the attack on ‘Azovstal’ is taking place,” said the deputy commander of the Azov regimentSvyatoslav Palamara Kaline to the diary Ukraine Pravda
For his part, the head of the patrol police in Mariupol, Mijailo Vershinin, has assured that when the buses left with the evacuees, the Russians “started attacking day and night, now they started attacking the factory in different places. We remain defend and fight.”
For its part, the Russian Ministry of Defence has accused the fighters of the Azov regiment and the Ukrainian armed forces entrenched in the factory of abusing a truce for the evacuation of civilians to leave the cellars and take up combat positions.
The first civilians evacuated from the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol (Ukraine) arrive in Zaporizhzhya. Photo: EFE
On the other hand, first civilians evacuated from the steel factory They arrived today in Zaporizhzhya, a town just over 200 kilometers from the besieged port city.
Accompanied by the United Nations and the Red Cross, the buses arrived with women, children and the elderly inside, in one of the most delicate operations of the war: the departure was difficult and the journey was longer than expected, passing through the checkpoints and the passage through combat areas forcing them to sleep en route.
Arrive to #zaporiya of civilians evacuated from the metallurgical plant in #mariupol pic.twitter.com/17XuLOpaeb
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Mariupol Mayor Vadim Boichenko confirmed on Tuesday that: 200 civilians are still incarcerated at the metallurgical plant waiting to be evacuated from the area.
Boichenko has also warned that Russian troops have blocked the evacuation of 2,000 residents of Mariupol who are in the town of Berdyansk, a few kilometers away, according to information from the Ukrinform news agency.
Boichenko estimates that there are more than 100,000 residents of Mariupol who may also be waiting to move. “Yesterday the attacks on Azovstal started just after the evacuation,” he lamented.
Source: EITB
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