500 more civilians evacuated from Mariupol

Roman Petrenko – Friday, 6 May 2022, 09:00

Almost 500 more civilians have been evacuated from the Azovstal plant in Mariupol.

Source: Andrii Yermak, Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, on Telegram; António Guterres, Secretary-General of the UN, on Twitter

Quote from Yermak: "We conducted another phase of the difficult operation to evacuate people from Mariupol and Azovstal. I can confirm that we were able to evacuate almost 500 civilians.

Ukraine will continue doing everything it can to rescue all civilians and military. I am grateful for the UN’s help."

Quote from Guterres: "2 safe passage convoys successfully evacuated nearly 500 people from the Azovstal plant, the city of Mariupol & surrounding areas.

I hope that continued coordination with Moscow and Kyiv will lead to more humanitarian pauses in order to allow civilians safe passage."