A convoy of 106 individuals evacuated from the Azovstal plant in Mariupol is due to arrive later Tuesday.

Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk, claimed that Russian forces were preventing hundreds of others from leaving Mariupol and other Russian-occupied locations.

“Hundreds more women, children and the elderly are under the rubble,” she said.

She further said that there were 40 badly injured soldiers trapped at the plant who need immediate medical attention.

She stated 106 persons had been taken to Zaporizhzhia out of the 150 who had been able to leave the destroyed compound.

Vereshchuk accused the Russians of modifying evacuation arrangements, which meant that residents of seized towns such as Tokmak and Vasylivka, south of Zaporizhzhia, were unable to flee.

The United Nations and the International Red Cross facilitated and organized the evacuation from Azovstal.

While, International Committee of the Red Cross President Peter Maurer said, “The ICRC hasn’t forgotten the people who are still there, nor those in other areas affected by the hostilities or those in dire need of humanitarian relief, wherever they are. We will not spare any effort to reach them.”