The UN reported that more than 170 people were evacuated from Mariupol

A bus with civilians leaves the territory of the Azovstal metallurgical plant. File photoUN, May 8.The next stage of the evacuation of civilians from Azovstal and other areas of Mariupol has been completed, more than 170 people have been evacuated, UN humanitarian coordinator Osnat Lubrani said in a statement. It is with great relief that I confirm that more than 170 people who have been subjected to intense shelling for more than 10 weeks … can now take a short break in Zaporozhye, where humanitarian organizations will provide them with immediate assistance,» Lubrani said.Dujarric: The UN is working with Russia and Kyiv to evacuate Azovstal In total, according to her, more than 600 people were evacuated from the Mariupol zone. in June of the same year, the 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 Semenov, announced that the city was surrounded, and a cleansing of its individual areas had begun. and neo-Nazis from the Azov regiment (against whose militants a criminal case has been initiated in Russia), the entire city territory was cleared. The remnants of the Ukrainian group are blocked at the Azovstal metallurgical plant. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and, as of March 25, they have completed the main tasks of the first stage — they have significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.