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More than 3,000 people have escaped the besieged region of Mariupol in a convoy of buses and private cars. Dozens of buses carrying Mariupol residents who arrived on Friday in Zaporizhzhia, about 200 kilometres to the northwest. Read our live blog below to see how the day’s events unfolded. All times are Paris time [GMT+2].
07:04am: Red Cross prepares fresh evacuation effort in Mariupol
The city has faced weeks of ferocious Russian shelling, with at least 5,000 residents killed, according to local authorities, and the estimated 160,000 who remain face shortages of food, water and electricity.
“We have managed to rescue 6,266 people, including 3,071 people from Mariupol,” Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky said in a video address early Saturday.
Giving details of Friday’s evacuation efforts along humanitarian corridors, Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said 42 buses carrying Mariupol residents had departed from the city of Berdiansk, 70 kilometres (44 miles) southwest, while another 12 had left Melitopol with local residents on board.
Meanwhile, The International Committee of the Red Cross said its team headed to Mariupol to conduct an evacuation effort was forced to turn back Friday after “arrangements and conditions made it impossible to proceed”. It said it would try again Saturday.
(FRANCE 24 with AFP, AP and REUTERS)
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