The Mariupol mayor’s office assures that the evacuation of the Azovstal steelworks continues “despite the difficulties”


The evacuation of more inhabitants of the port city of Mariupolin it sea ​​of ​​azov, continues “despite difficulties”, as reported by the mayor’s office through a message on the Telegram social network, through which it asks those who are going to be evacuated to come to the meeting point. According to the mayor’s office, the call to evacuate more residents remains in force today, although the buses have delayed their departure in relation to the scheduled time.

“The evacuation continues. The buses have not yet reached the meeting place, but we ask the residents of Mariupol that they stay near the Port City shopping center,” says the message from the city mayor. “Despite all the difficulties, the evacuation of civilians from Mariupol to Zaporizhia must be carried out,” it says.

The Mariupol mayor’s office hopes that throughout this Monday the civilians who were evacuated from the besieged port city on Sunday, but who were trapped halfway, will reach Zaporizhia. “According to our information, they have already left Mariúpol and we expect them to arrive in Zaporizhia this afternoon or at night,” said a spokesman for the mayor’s office, through Telegram, according to the Ukrainian portal Ukrinform.

The city ​​of Zaporizhia, about 220 kilometers from Mariupolawaits the arrival of the convoy with the first civilians who remained hidden in the Azovstal steel mill for two months, with municipal technicians, doctors and humanitarian organizations prepared to assist them.

Under the auspices of the UN

The evacuation of the inhabitants of Mariupol and the Azovstal steelworkswhere hundreds of civilians remain surrounded and trapped, is sponsored by the UN and the Red Cross.

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As indicated by the city council early in the morning, in addition to Zaporizhia, two additional locations had been agreed for people to be transferred in the evacuation columns that will leave Mariúpol.

This morning the commander of the 12 Brigade of the Ukrainian National Guard, Denys Schleha, had informed the local agency Ukrinform that the Russian Army had resumed “massive attacks” against the Azovstal steelworks, in Mariúpol, where hundreds of people take refuge. The military chief clarified that, according to his estimates, there are still several hundred civilians in the Azovstal bunkers, including up to 20 children. In addition, he said that there are also some 500 wounded waiting to be able to leave the steel mill, and that “our fallen comrades-in-arms can be taken away, which is also a very large number.”


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