UN convoy to evacuate more civilians in Mariupol

The UN has revealed that, a third operation to rescue civilians from Mariupol kick starts on Friday, as about 200 civilians are still stuck in a steelworks as the fighting intensifies.

According to the UN chief, Antonio Guterres stated that, “Everything should be done to get people out of what he described as hellscapes.”

Russia’s Vladimir Putin noted that his forces are ready to give civilians safe passage, but fighters must surrender.

Meanwhile, the Russian president who already declared victory in Mariupol, ordered his forces to seal off the sprawling industrial site which was designed during the Cold War to serve as a nuclear bunker and has a network of tunnels deep below ground rather than try to take control of it.

Ukraine’s President Zelensky reiterated that the Russian shelling and attempts to wrest control of the steelworks were ongoing.

“Just imagine this hell. And there are children! More than two months of constant shelling, bombing, constant death nearby,” he said.

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