All women, children and elderly have been evacuated from the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, Ukraine's government announced.
this week. They were evacuated through humanitarian corridors facilitated by the United Nations and International Committee of the Red Cross during a three-day daytime ceasefire.
Over the past several weeks, Russian forces launched air and ground attacks on the massive plant, which remains Ukraine's final military foothold in the city.The President's order has been carried out: All women, children and the elderly have been evacuated from Azovstal," Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister Iryna VereshchukVereshchuk did not say how many civilians in total were evacuated. Ukrainian officials previously said roughly 1,000 civilians were sheltering in the plant.
Fully capturing Mariupol would allow Russia to reposition soldiers for its ongoing assault on Ukraine's Donbas region. U.S. officials say that effort has, so far,how many Ukrainian civilians have been killed throughout Russia's assault of Mariupol. Ongoing fighting has prevented monitoring organizations from conducting a count.dug in villages outside of Mariupol.and 3,493 injured during the invasion, though it stressed that its estimates are likely lower than the actual figures.
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