All women, children and elderly people have been evacuated from the besieged Azovstal steel plant in the southern port of Mariupol, Ukraine’s deputy prime minister said on Saturday.
Highlights
- All women, children and elderly people have been evacuated from the besieged Azovstal steel plant in the southern port of Mariupol, Ukraine’s deputy prime minister says.
- Earlier, Russian-backed separatists in Donetsk region said that 50 civilians had been evacuated on Saturday.
- Ukraine announced on Friday an evacuation plan from the steel plant and other parts of the city for Saturday.
- The move was announced earlier this week by Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk on the Telegram messaging service, who said it was part of the “humanitarian operation” that ended with the evacuation of 50 civilians from the plant.
- Reuters had not seen any evidence of their arrival at a nearby separatist-controlled reception point as of 1600 GMT