First group leaves steel works during ceasefire but hundreds more remained trapped in the port city
Azov regiment members walk with civilians during UN-led evacuations from the sprawling Azovstal steel plant, after nearly two months of siege warfare on the city by Russia during its invasion, in Mariupol, Ukraine in this still image from video released May 1 2022. Picture: DAVID ARAKHAMIA/AZOV HANDOUT via REUTERS
“The situation has become a sign of a real humanitarian catastrophe,” Ukrainian deputy prime minister Iryna Vereshchuk said. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s forces are now in control of nearly all the city, linking up Russian-held territory to the west and east. Russia last week said it had decided against storming the steel works and would instead blockade it. But sporadic bombardments have continued.
Moscow calls its invasion a “special military operation” to disarm Ukraine and rid it of anti-Russian nationalism fomented by the West. Ukraine and the West say Russia launched an unprovoked war of aggression that threatens to spiral into a much wider conflict.
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