On the 68th day of the Russian invasion in Ukraine this Monday, May 2, the Ukrainian authorities hope to continue the evacuations of civilians in Mariupol while a hundred civilians have been evacuated from the Azovstal factory besieged by Russian forces.
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► A hundred civilians were able to leave the Azovstal factory in Mariupol, a port in southeastern Ukraine besieged by the Russians, on Saturday, President Zelensky announced on Twitter. Pope Francis has renewed his call for the opening of humanitarian corridors to evacuate civilians. kyiv hopes that evacuations will be able to continue as planned this Monday.
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Times are given in Universal Time (UT)
4:00 a.m .: Ukrainian authorities hope for continued evacuations
The continuation of the evacuations of residents of Mariupol is scheduled for Monday morning, after a first operation which removed a hundred civilians from the Azovstal factory, besieged by Russian forces in this strategic port in south-eastern Ukraine.
“ On May 2, the evacuation in Mariupol begins at 7 a.m. (4 a.m. UT). Collection point – Shopping center “Port City””, announced on Telegram Pavlo Kirilenko, regional governor of Donetsk, on the night of Sunday to Monday. This evacuation operation began on Saturday and was carried out in coordination between Ukraine, Russia and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). It first concerned civilians present in the basements of the huge Azovstal steelworks.
“ Today, for the first time since the start of the war, this vital humanitarian corridor has begun to function. For the first time, there were two days of real ceasefire in this territory of the steel complex, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday evening in a message broadcast by video.
