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Exhausted Azovstal evacuees recount trauma of Mariupol siege

Evacuees from the Ukrainian city of Mariupol arrive at a centre for displaced people in Zaporizhzhia [File: Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo]

Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine – Pale and exhausted, Ukrainian civilians evacuated from Mariupol stumbled out of buses in the city of Zaporizhzhia after a gruelling three-day journey.

The northwesterly trip of 230km (140 miles), which would have taken just three hours before the war, was part of a five-day evacuation plan coordinated by the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross that began on April 29.

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