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Emma Graham-Harrison in Zaporizhzhia

‘I didn’t think we would make it’: last wave of Azovstal evacuees reach safety

Men, women and children eat and drink at a food tent in Zaporizhzhia catering for evacuees after having arrived from Mariupol
Men, women and children eat and drink at a food tent in Zaporizhzhia catering for evacuees after having arrived from Mariupol, including some civilians from the besieged Azovstal steel plant. Photograph: ed ram/The Guardian

The last civilians rescued from the besieged Azovstal steel plant complex in Mariupol reached safety in Ukrainian held territory late on Sunday evening.

The convoy arrived in the south-eastern city of Zaporizhzhia after dark, carrying about 170 evacuees. There were 51 civilians who had been sheltering in the Azovstal complex, and about 120 others who had walked or hitched lifts across the city to a pickup point in a ruined shopping mall.

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