UKRAINE-RUSSIA LATEST: 🔷 More than 600 residents of Mariupol evacuate heavily bombed city in private cars 🔷 Roughly 500 Ukrainian refugees and some Russians at U.S. southern border 🔷 Ukraine resumes control of Chernobyl nuclear power plant
Share to TwitterAbout 631 residents of the bombed-out city of Mariupol in southeast Ukraine were able to evacuate on Thursday, according to a Ukrainian official.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday in an address to lawmakers of Australia, the Netherlands and Belgium that more than 90% of all buildings in Mariupol have been completely destroyed by Russian strikes. The number of Ukrainian refugees at the U.S. southern border entry point grew overnight from about 200 on Wednesday.About 500 Ukrainian refugees camp outside the Port of Entry in Tijuana, Mexico, on March 31, 2021, waiting to be allowed into the United States.
Among the campers are also many Russians who oppose Russian President Vladimir Putin's decision to invade Ukraine, some telling ABC News they believe they would have been killed had they stayed in their homeland.
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