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Ukraine says a new attempt is underway to evacuate civilians from tunnels and bunkers under a heavily bombed steel mill in the city of Mariupol.

Ukraine's military claims it has recaptured areas in the south and repelled further attacks in the eastIn this handout photo taken from video released on Wednesday by the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic Interior Ministry Press Service, smoke rises from the Azovstal steel mill in Mariupol, Ukraine. The Donetsk People's Republic is a breakaway state formed by pro-Russian separatists in 2014.

"The next stage of rescuing our people from Azovstal is underway at the moment. Information about the results will be provided later," said Andriy Yermak, head of the Ukrainian presidential staff. He gave no more details.Russia has turned its heaviest firepower on Ukraine's east and south, after failing to take the capital Kyiv in the early weeks following its Feb. 24 invasion.

It was not possible to independently verify either side's statements about events on the battlefield. Kateryna Prokopenko, right, wife of Azov Regiment commander Denys Prokopenko, and Yulia Fedosiuk, wife of Azov Regiment member Arseny Fedosiuk, show photos of their husbands during an interview with The Associated Press, in Rome, on April 29.

And the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia, a key transit point for evacuees from Mariupol, announced a curfew from Sunday evening through Tuesday morning.In a video address to a medical charity Thursday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky described the toll the invasion has taken on Ukraine's health-care system, saying hundreds of hospitals and other medical institutions have been devastated, while doctors have been left without drugs to treat cancer or the ability to perform surgery.

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