Seven buses and dozens of cars transporting evacuees, mostly from the devastated, besieged southeastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol, reached the city of Zaporizhzhia in an International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) convoy on Wednesday. Lucile Marbeau, spokesperson for the ICRC's regional delegation, spoke to FRANCE 24 from eastern Ukraine's Dnipro about the process of getting these people to safety.
"Unfortunately we weren't able to access directly Mariupol, so we were 20 kilometres around; during five days we were in the area – this was the first cross line operation that the International Committee Red Cross was able to carry out," Lucile Marbeau, spokesperson for the Red Cross regional delegation, told FRANCE 24 from eastern Ukraine's Dnipro.
