In the previous days, about 500 civilians managed to leave the city and surrounding areas.
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said that now the third operation to evacuate people from the city of Mariupol continues. He stated this at a meeting of the UN Security Council in New York, Interfax-Ukraine reports.
“The third operation is ongoing. But our policy is not to talk about the details until they are completed, in order to avoid disrupting possible success,” Guterres said.
“In the first, which ended on May 3, civilians were evacuated from the Azovstal plant, as well as 59 people from neighboring neighborhoods. In the second operation, which ended last night, more than 320 civilians were evacuated from Mariupol and surrounding areas, “Guterres said.
He stressed that only about 500 civilians have “found long-awaited relief after living under constant fire and with limited access to water, food and sanitation.”
Earlier, Irina Vereshchuk said that within the Mariupol humanitarian corridor 344 people were evacuated .
Earlier, Mariupol Mayor Vadym Boychenko said that more than 100,000 people remain in the occupied city, including at least 200 directly on the territory of the Azovstal plant .
On May 1, the long-awaited evacuation of civilians from the Azovstal Mariupol Metallurgical Plant finally began. About a hundred Ukrainians were taken out that day .
According to preliminary data, about a thousand Mariupol civilians, including about 60 children, were in the bomb shelters of the Azovstal plant. . There are also several hundred wounded Ukrainian servicemen.
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