People fleeing besieged Mariupol described weeks of bombardments and deprivation as they arrived Monday in Ukrainian-held territory.
Mariupol deputy mayor says evacuation progress is slow, while many could still be stuck at steel plantTrapped residents emerge from Azovstal steel mill in Mariupol, UkraineAs many as 100 people, most of whom had been trapped underground at the Azovstal steel mill in Mariupol, Ukraine, have left via a safe corridor.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he hoped more people would be able to leave Mariupol in an organized evacuation on Monday. The city council told residents wanting to leave to gather at a shopping mall to wait for buses. Anastasiia Dembytska, who took advantage of the brief cease-fire around the evacuation of civilians from the steel plant to leave with her daughter, nephew and dog, said her family survived by cooking on a makeshift stove and drinking well water.
"There's rubble. We have no special equipment. It's hard for soldiers to pick up slabs weighing tons only with their arms," Sviatoslav Palamar, deputy commander of the Azov Regiment, told the AP in an interview. "We hear voices of people who are still alive" inside shattered buildings. A Russian serviceman guards in an area of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station in territory under Russian military control in southeastern Ukraine on Sunday. This picture was taken during a trip organized by the Russian Ministry of Defence.
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