Ukrainian forces say they have ended their 'combat mission' in besieged Mariupol, as hundreds are evacuated from the Azovstal steel plant.
More than 260 people have left Azovstal steel plant, Ukrainian defense official saysBuses carrying service members of Ukrainian forces from the besieged Azovstal steel mill drive away under escort of the pro-Russian military in the course of Ukraine-Russia conflict in Mariupol, Ukraine, Monday, May 16.— including 53 seriously wounded, Ukraine's Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Malyar said.
She said that"53 seriously injured people were evacuated from Azovstal to a medical facility in Novoazovsk [in territory of the Donetsk People's Republic] for medical care." Olenivka is a town near Donetsk on the front lines of the current fighting, but in Russian-occupied territory."As for the defenders who still remain on the territory of Azovstal, rescue efforts are being carried out by the joint efforts of the above-mentioned agencies," she said.
"Unfortunately, we do not have the opportunity to unblock Azovstal by military means. The most important common task of all Ukraine and the whole world is to save the lives of the defenders of Mariupol," Malyar said.
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