After ten days of unsuccessful attempts to evacuate civilians from Mariupol, a port city in southeastern Ukraine that has suffered the greatest humanitarian impact since the beginning of the Russian invasion, the first convoy managed to leave the city on Monday (14).
A representative of the local municipality told Reuters that Russian forces had allowed 160 vehicles to leave the city towards Zaporizhzhia in the first two hours, but pointed out that the final number was likely to be much higher – the road these civilians have been leaving Mariupol on is not is being bombed, unlike the city.
However, a senior adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky later said that Russia had again blocked an aid convoy trying to bring supplies into the city.
Ukraine estimates that so far 2,500 civilians have died in Mariupol. Russia claims it does not target civilians. In addition to the dead, there have been reports in recent days of hundreds of thousands of people seeking shelter in basements and not having access to food and water.
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