At least 20 civilians including several children were able to leave a badly battered steel plant in the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol in what could be the start of a long-awaited, larger evacuation of the last holdout in the Russian-held city.
Smoke rises from the grounds of the Azovstal steel plant in the city of Mariupol on April 29, 2022, amid the ongoing Russian military action in Ukraine. Andrey BORODULIN / AFP
Ukraine’s President Zelensky said in a video Saturday evening said Kyiv was “doing everything to ensure that the evacuation mission from Mariupol is carried out”. The three bodies found in a pit were “brutally killed” by Russian soldiers — each shot in the head, the police said in a statement. But Denis Pushilin, leader of the breakaway eastern region of Donetsk, accused Ukrainian forces of “acting like outright terrorists” and holding civilians hostage in the steel plant.
“We were in the basements without food for two months, we were eating what we had,” said Svyatoslav, 40, who did not want to give his full name, his eyes red with fatigue.Thousands of people have been killed and more than 13 million have been forced to flee their homes since the Russian invasion of its pro-Western neighbour began on February 24, according to the United Nations.
But Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the “special military operation… is proceeding strictly according to plan”, China’s official Xinhua news agency reported.“If the US and NATO are really interested in resolving the Ukraine crisis, then first of all, they should wake up and stop supplying the Kyiv regime with arms and ammunition,” Lavrov said.
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