MOSCOW, May 6The office of UN Secretary-General António Guterres misinterpreted data on 500 evacuees from the Azovstal steel plant, the DPR territorial defense headquarters said. Earlier, Guterres said that the UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) evacuated about 500 people from the steel plant during a joint operation. from the Azovstal plant, as well as from Mariupol itself and from adjacent territories, without specifying what period they are talking about.»Today, UN Secretary General António Guterres announced the withdrawal of two groups of 500 people from Azovstal in Mariupol thanks to the efforts of the UN and the Red Cross.This figure, apparently, was highlighted and misinterpreted by specialists running the official’s official Twitter channel from the publication of the DPR territorial defense headquarters about the evacuation of more than 500 civilians from Mariupol, who were taken to the point of assistance to the population in Bezymenny per day «, — says the message of the headquarters in its Telegram channel. By d According to the headquarters, these evacuees are not related to the Ukrainian militants and the persons they hold. It is reported that 518 people were delivered to the point of assistance by DPR specialists from the residential areas of Mariupol, whose residents needed help and decided to move to safe areas of the DPR and the Russian Federation. civilians, including four children,» the headquarters said.The second bus took thirteen more civilians from the territory of Azovstal. At the time of the proclamation of the DPR in 2014, Mariupol, with a population of about 450 thousand people, was the second city of the republic after Donetsk, but in June of the same year, Ukrainian security forces regained control of Mariupol. On March 7, 12 days after the start of the Russian special operation to demilitarize Ukraine, the deputy commander of the Vostok battalion, Alexander Semyonov, announced that the city was surrounded, and a cleansing of its individual districts had begun. On April 16, the official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Igor Konashenkov, announced that the entire city territory had been cleared of the Ukrainian army, foreign mercenaries and neo-Nazis from the Azov regiment (against whose militants a criminal case was initiated in Russia). The remnants of the Ukrainian group are blocked at the Azovstal plant and refuse to capitulate. The Russian side regularly announces the opening of humanitarian corridors for the evacuation of civilians from the Azovstal plant in Mariupol. At this time, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the formations of the DPR «unilaterally stop any military operations, the units are withdrawn to a safe distance and ensure the withdrawal of civilians in any direction they choose, both to the territory of the Russian Federation and to areas controlled by the Kyiv authorities,» the statement says. 
The Kremlin said that the Russian military continues to block Azovstal
