Efforts to evacuate Ukrainian civilians to safer areas will continue Saturday amid air strikes on a steel mill where hundreds of civilians are sheltering underground.
Ukrainian officials have estimated that about 2,000 of their troops are inside the plant in Mariupol, along with about 1,000 sheltering in the facility’s underground tunnels. Credit: Azov Battalion via StoryfulAn adviser to Ukraine’s presidential office says Russian forces are attacking a steel plant that is the last defense stronghold of Ukrainian forces in the strategic port city of Mariupol.
Arestovich’s statement came two days after Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu reported to President Vladimir Putin that the whole of Mariupol, with the exception of Azovstal, had been "liberated" by the Russians. Ukrainian officials have estimated that about 2,000 of their troops are inside the plant along with about 1,000 sheltering in the facility’s underground tunnels.A video released by the Azov regiment of Ukraine’s National Guard, part of the group currently holed up, shows women and children sheltering underground. Some of them have been hiding in the plant’s tunnels for up to two months.
Another young girl in the video says she and her relatives left home on Feb. 27. Since then, they have seen "neither the sky, nor the sun." "We really want to get out of here safely, so that no one gets hurt," the girl pleads. Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said on the Telegram messaging app there will be another attempt to evacuate women, children and the elderly from Mariupol.
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