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Volodymyr Zelenskiy has posted an update on Telegram about the ongoing evacuations from the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol.
He says that after much negotiation there were “two days of real ceasefire” and the first evacuees from Azovstal would arrive in Zaporizhzhia on Thursday morning.
More than a hundred civilians have already been evacuated - women and children fleeing hostilities there. At Azovstal. Given all the complexities of the process, the first evacuees will arrive in Zaporizhzhia tomorrow morning. Our team will meet them there. I hope that tomorrow all the necessary conditions will be met to continue the evacuation of people from Mariupol. We plan to start at 8 am.
