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Russia-Ukraine war: ‘Safe passage operation’ starts in Mariupol

Evacuees in a bus in an area controlled by Russian-backed separatist forces in Bezimenne, about 20km (12 miles) east of Mariupol on Saturday, April 30, 2022 [AP]

About 100 civilians have been evacuated from the besieged steel plant in the eastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol, after the United Nations and the International Red Cross brokered a deal to extract non-combatants from the site of the most destructive siege of the war in Ukraine.

The evacuees will arrive in the Ukrainian-controlled city of Zaporizhzhia on Monday, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy tweeted on Sunday.

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