The first civilians evacuated from the steelworks have arrived in Zaporizhia. Even so, the mayor of Mariupol has confirmed that 200 civilians are still trapped in the metallurgical plant.
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Russian troops have begun the final assault on the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol, both the Azov Regiment, which defends the steel facility, and Ukrainian police sources reported today.
“Throughout the night they bombed us from the air, two civilians, women, died, and now the assault on ‘Azovstal’ is taking place,” said the deputy commander of the Azov RegimentSvyatoslav Palamar Kaline to the diary Ukrainska Pravda.
The chief of the Patrol Police in Mariupol, Mijailo Vershinin, has assured, for his part, that when the buses left with the evacuees, the Russians “began to attack day and night, now they began the assault on the plant by various places. We maintain defense and fight.”
For his part, the Russian Ministry of Defense has accused the fighters of the Azov regiment and the Ukrainian Armed Forces entrenched in the plant of taking advantage of a truce for the evacuation of civilians to leave the basements and occupy combat positions.
The first civilians evacuated from the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol (Ukraine) arrive in Zaporizhia. Photo: EFE
On the other hand, first civilians evacuated from the steel mill They have arrived today in Zaporizhia, a city just over 200 kilometers from the besieged port city.
The buses have arrived escorted by the United Nations and the Red Cross 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, through the checkpoints and the passage through combat territories that forced them to sleep on the way.
Arrive to #zaporiya of civilians evacuated from the metallurgical plant in #mariupol pic.twitter.com/17XuLOpaeb
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The mayor of Mariupol, Vadim Boichenko, confirmed this Tuesday that there are still 200 civilians trapped in the metallurgical plant waiting to be evacuated from the area.
Boichenko has also warned that Russian forces have blocked the evacuation of 2,000 Mariupol residents who are in the city of Berdyansk, a few kilometers away, according to information from the Ukrinform news agency.
Boichenko estimates that there are more than 100,000 Mariupol residents who may also be waiting to move. “Yesterday the attacks against Azovstal started right after the evacuation,” she lamented.
Source: Eitb
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