Ukraine announces imminent evacuation of Mariupol steelworks


The Ukrainian presidency has announced that an operation of evacuation of civilians from the Azovstal factory in Mariupol, in southeastern Ukraine, besieged by Russian troops. “Today an operation is scheduled to evict the civilians from the factory,” said the presidency.

Hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers and civiliansincluding dozens of children, are trapped, according to kyiv, in the huge Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, along with the last Ukrainian fighters in the city, which has been almost completely destroyed and controlled by Russian forces after weeks of siege. A commander of the Ukrainian military in Azovstal, Sergei Volynsky, said Thursday that a Russian bomb fell on the underground field hospital installed by the Ukrainians.

“The entire medical infrastructure, the operating room was destroyed. Many of our people died instantly. Many of the wounded received new injuries. The situation is getting more and more critical.”Levy Bereg said in an interview on the Ukrainian website.

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The UN coordinator in Ukraine, Osnat Lubraniannounced on Thursday that he was leaving for the south of the country to prepare an evacuation attempt from Mariupol.

The UN Secretary General Antonio Guterreswho visited kyiv on Thursday, said the organization was doing “everything possible” to evacuate civilians trapped in the “apocalypse” from Mariupol, where half a million people lived before the Russian invasion in late February.


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