May 2, 2022, 04:58am.
A convoy of 100 evacuees from the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol are expected to arrive in a Ukrainian city on Monday.
In this photo taken from video, civil evacuees sit in a bus in an area controlled by Russian-backed rebels.
According to the Associated Press, civilians who were holed up inside the Azovstal plant along with the last Ukrainian fighters in the city began to leave over the weekend.
Zelensky said in his daily video address that around 100 of the evacuees are going to arrive in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia on Monday.
Several women and small children were evacuated on Sunday by Ukrainian fighters and Red Cross volunteers.
In a post on Telegram, Ukrainian deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said that hundreds of civilians were still trapped in the plant and were facing a humanitarian catastrophe as they were running out of water, food and medicine.
100,000. According to the Mariupol Mayor, an estimated number of civilians were still trapped in Mariupol as of late April. 6,000 women, children and elderly people were supposed to be evacuated from the city. It's not clear if the targets still remain the same.
Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed last month that his forces had captured Mariupol. Putin ordered his troops to lay siege to the massive industrial complex so that no one can escape. More than 20,000 people have been killed in Mariupol since the start of the conflict, and Moscow has faced international condemnation for its role. Several requests for a humanitarian corridor from international entities, including the Vatican, had been turned down by Putin.
In an address delivered at the Vatican on Sunday, Pope Francis criticized Russia's invasion of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, saying: "My thoughts go immediately to the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, the city of Mary, barbarously bombarded."
Dozens of civilians were evacuated from the Mariupol steel plant.
The people are being evacuated from the steel plant.
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