Twenty civilians left the Azovstal factory in Mariupol, a port in southeastern Ukraine besieged by the Russians, on Saturday to be evacuated to Zaporijjia, the Azov regiment which defends the site announced.
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Twenty civilians, women and children (...) have been transferred to an agreed location and we hope that they will be evacuated to Zaporizhia, on the territory controlled by Ukraine
", declared Sviatoslav Palamar, deputy commander of the Azov regiment in a video on Telegram.
A few hours earlier, the official Russian agency Tass announced that a group of 25 civilians, including six children, had been able to get out of Azovstal, a huge steelworks where hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers and civilians are blocked.