'Like the apocalypse, like a horror film,' is how one evacuee describes weeks of sheltering in the vast, Soviet-era steel plant. Her daughter says, 'Each day felt like it would be our last one alive.'
Evacuees arrive by bus at an evacuation point for people fleeing the Azovstal plant, Mariupol, Melitopol and surrounding towns under Russian control, on May 3 in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine. Scores arrived from Mariupol, including the first group who escaped the Azovstal steel facility, following negotiations brokered by the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross.
A vast network of tunnels with bunkers lies under the sprawling, Soviet-era plant, reportedly the last Ukrainian-held post in Mariupol. Hundreds of civilians as well as up to 2,000Anna Krylova and her daughter Maiia took shelter in the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol for 70 days. They were evacuated this week.
Osnat Lubrani, the United Nations humanitarian coordinator for Ukraine, told reporters that the U.N. was already planning another evacuation. But last night, Russian forces reportedly began storming the steel plant. "The [steelworks] was hit several times, it was burning several times," he says."We were trying to manage the fire and not to suffocate. So every day was a fight for survival."
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