More than 100 women and children were evacuated from a Soviet-era steel plant in Mariupol where Russian bombs have rained down for two months.
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser thatA Ukrainian woman from Mariupol cries after arriving at a registration centre for internally displaced people in Zaporizhzhia
Azovstal steel plant employee Valeria embraces her sister Aleksandra as they meet at a temporary accommodation centre ‘I feared that the bunker would not withstand it – I had terrible fear. ‘When the bunker started to shake, I was hysterical, my husband can vouch for that. I was so worried the bunker would cave in.’Officials have repeatedly accused Vladimir Putin’s forces of shelling agreed evacuation routes.
In a video address shared on Telegram, President Zelensky said: ‘Today we finally managed to start the evacuation of people from Azovstal.A woman holds a child next to a bus filled with evacuees from Azovstal People arrive at a temporary accommodation centre in the Donetsk Region
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