A humanitarian convoy carrying 50 women, children, and elderly people made it out of Mariupol’s Azovstal steel plant on Friday, Ukraine’s deputy prime minister Iryna Vereshchuk has said.
She described the evacuation as “extremely slow” and accused Russia of delaying efforts by violating a local ceasefire allowing the civilians to leave.
Vereshchuk added that the evacuation operation will continue on Saturday morning.
Moscow’s defence ministry has separately confirmed that 50 civilians were evacuated on Friday and that the operation will continue on Saturday.
This confirmed number of total evacuees is slightly higher than the 48 civilians Russian media reported earlier as having been evacuated on Friday.
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