‘Everybody needed some kind of care,’ says Azovstal evacuee

On Tuesday, dozens of evacuees from the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol arrived safely in Ukrainian-controlled Zaporizhzhia.

When James Elder of the UN children’s charity UNICEF, visited evacuees who had been taken by bus, he saw a “whole range of emotions.”

He told that one mother was “amazed” that she and her two young grandkids had survived the Russian soldiers’ bombardment of the steelworks.

There were tears of delight and despair from individuals whose family members were still stranded in Mariupol, Elder told.

He also stated that the evacuees ranged in age, with some elderly folks requiring wheelchairs right away.

Others displayed “degrees of malnutrition,” as some evacuees had only been fed one meal each day.

“Everyone needed some type of care,” Elder remarked, whether it was medical or psychological.