50 more civilians, including 11 children, rescued from besieged Mariupol steel plant

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50 more civilians, including 11 children, rescued from besieged Mariupol steel plant
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Fifty more civilians, including 11 children, were rescued Friday from the tunnels under a besieged steel plant in Mariupol where Ukrainian fighters have been making their last stand to prevent Moscow's complete takeover of the strategically important port city.

The Russian Interdepartmental Humanitarian Response Center, a Russian government agency, issued a statement saying 11 children were among the 50 people rescued from the Azovstal steel plant and handed over to representatives of the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross.

“Our colleagues are currently on the ground,” U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said of the latest evacuation effort. “We are in an extremely delicate phase of this operation, working in close coordination with both the Ukrainian authorities and the Russian authorities.” It could takes days to learn details about the latest evacuations from the steel plant, since people escaping Mariupol typically have to pass through contested areas and many checkpoints before reaching relative safety in the Ukrainian-controlled city of Zaporizhzhia, about 140 miles to the northwest.

Fighters defending the plant said Friday on Telegram that Russian troops had fired on an evacuation vehicle on the plant's grounds. They said the car was moving toward civilians when it was hit by shelling, and that one soldier was killed and six were wounded.Russia took control of Mariupol, aside from the steel plant, after bombarding it for two months.

While they pounded away at the plant, Russian forces struggled to make significant gains elsewhere, 10 weeks into a devastating war that has killed thousands of people, forced millions to flee the country and flattened large swaths of cities.

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