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Fifty more civilians have been evacuated from the besieged Azovstal steel plant in the city of Mariupol even as the factory continues to be hit by Russia's ground and air attacks. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says Mariupol 'is completely destroyed' in an address to the nation.
Humanitarian efforts, lead by the United Nations and Red Cross, had been stepped up over the last week to evacuate the last civilians trapped in the sprawling Soviet-era steel works.
The first civilians evacuated from the bombed-out steel plant that has become the last stronghold of Ukrainian fighters in Mariupol slowly made their way toward safety Monday, as others who managed to escape the city described terrifying weeks of bombardment and deprivation.
People fleeing besieged Mariupol described weeks of bombardments and deprivation as they arrived Monday in Ukrainian-held territory, where officials and relief workers anxiously awaited the first group of civilians freed from a steel plant that is the last redoubt of Ukrainian fighters in the devastated port city. FRANCE 24's Nadia Massih reports from Kyiv, Ukraine.
A group of civilians have been able to leave the steel plant in Mariupol, Ukraine's last stronghold in the besieged port city. Follow our live updates.
Russian forces were on Wednesday pounding a huge steel works in Mariupol where the southern Ukrainian city's last defenders and some civilians are holed up, a local official said.
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