Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said the Ukrainian authorities are working every day on the issue of evacuating people from the besieged city of Mariupol, including from the Azovstal steel plant.
Zaporizhzhia authorities are now waiting for a column of people evacuated from the Azovstal plant, Mariupol and other temporarily occupied territories.
The evacuation of people from the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol does not concern the military and the wounded, because the United Nations, which facilitates the process, does not assume such responsibility.
The invaders have resumed massive strikes on the Azovstal metallurgical plant in Mariupol shortly after a group of civilians sheltering there was evacuated earlier on Sunday.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine welcomed the start of the evacuation of civilians from the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol and called for the continued provision of humanitarian corridors.
The evacuation of civilians has begun from the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, destroyed by Russian shelling. The first group of people is already heading to the government-controlled territory.
20 civilians, including women and children, have been evacuated from the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, which has been destroyed by Russian shelling.
The Office of the UN Secretary-General, following his talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, announced Russia’s agreement to evacuate Azovstal. .....
The Azov Regiment showed in another video how women and children survive in the basements of the Azovstal plant in Mariupol, hiding from Russian forces.
In Mariupol, Russian troops continue trying to eliminate the military and civilians who stay in the territory of the Azovstal plant. Shelling and bombing continue right now.
Russian invaders on April 19 declared a "ceasefire regime" in Mariupol to ensure the safe evacuation of civilians from shelters at the Azovstal steel works, but they began shelling the area of the plant.
The Security Service of Ukraine released an interception of a phone call in which a Russian serviceman talks about the leadership’s order to raze Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol to the ground.
The commander of the Azov Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Denys Prokopenko, has called on world leaders to organize a humanitarian corridor in order to evacuate civilians and the wounded who stay at the Azovstal plant in Mariupol.