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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
Joseph Campbell and Alessandra Prentice

Exhausted evacuees from Mariupol steel plant reach safety in Ukrainian city

A Ukrainian evacuee from Mariupol cries after arriving at a registration centre for internally displaced people, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine May 3, 2022. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino

Dozens of evacuees who took refuge for weeks in the bunkers of a steel works in Russian-occupied Mariupol reached the safety of Kyiv-controlled Zaporizhzhia on Tuesday, but aid workers said many still remained trapped in the port city.

Exhausted-looking people, including young children and pensioners laden with bags, clambered off buses that pulled into a car park in southeastern Ukraine after escaping the ruins of their hometown where Russia now claims control.

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