About a hundred civilians were evacuated from Azovstal – Zelensky

They were taken out under the auspices of the UN.

From the Mariupol metallurgical plant “Azovstal” on Sunday , May 1, was lucky enough to evacuate about a hundred civilians. This was announced by President Volodymyr Zelensky.

“The evacuation of civilians from Azovstal has begun. The first group of about 100 people is already heading to the controlled area. Tomorrow we will meet them in Zaporozhye. Thank you to our team! They are currently working with UN officials to evacuate the rest of the civilians from the plant, “the president wrote on Twitter.

Earlier, Reuters reported that several dozen people were lucky enough to be evacuated from the plant in a convoy of cars with United Nations symbols. .

First, a group of forty people with Ukrainian license plates arrived in the Russian-occupied Bezimenne village in the Russian-occupied Donetsk region, 30 km from Mariupol, accompanied by Russian troops and cars with UN symbols.

Later, another group of people from Mariupol arrived at the same point.

Russia's Defense Ministry said on Sunday that two groups of people had left the Azovstal plant, and released a video showing cars with the symbols of the Organization of Belarus. United Nations and the Red Cross.

It will be recalled that on April 26, Antonio Guterres met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. The main topics of the conversation, which lasted about an hour, were “proposals for humanitarian aid and evacuation of civilians” from the conflict zones, namely from the besieged city of Mariupol. As a result, Putin “in principle” agreed to allow the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross to assist in the evacuation of citizens from the Azovstal plant in Mariupol. However, the next day the Kremlin said that Russia had not given its final consent to evacuate Ukrainians from the Azovstal plant.

Later, during a visit to Kyiv, Guterres called the talks on evacuation from Mariupol very difficult.

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Based on materials: ZN.ua

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