Ukraine, UN and Red Cross resume efforts to evacuate residents of Mariupol

A bus convoy departed Mariupol on Wednesday in a new attempt by Ukraine, the United Nations, and the International Committee of the Red Cross to evacuate residents from the southern Ukrainian city, according to the regional governor.

Donetsk Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko claimed the truck was headed to the Ukrainian-controlled city of Zaporizhzhia.

He did not disclose how many buses were in the convoy or whether any more residents had been evacuated from a massive steel factory in Mariupol, where the city’s final defenders were fighting Russian forces who had taken Mariupol.

On Tuesday, dozens of refugees who had been hiding for weeks in the Azovstal steel plant bunkers arrived in Zaporizhzhia, but relief workers reported many more were stranded in the port city.

On the Telegram messaging service, Kyrylenko remarked, “The buses have already left Mariupol.” “Please pass this information on to those who require it!”

As Moscow laid siege to Mariupol, a crucial city on the Sea of Azov, the huge Azovstal industrial complex, with its bunkers and tunnels, became a haven for both residents and Ukrainian combatants.

More than 200 civilians remained in the Azovstal facility on Tuesday, according to Mariupol’s mayor, with a total of 100,000 inhabitants left in the city, which has been ravaged by weeks of Russian siege and shelling.

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