The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has said that a convey of civilians evacuated from the Azovstal steel plant in besieged Mariupol has reached Zaporizhzhia, APA reports citing The Guardian.
In a statement, the ICRC said:
"A convoy of buses and ambulances accompanied by ICRC and UN teams was joined by families and individuals in private vehicles along the way. More than 100 people, including some who were wounded, reached Zaporizhzhia on Tuesday. Other people from the plant went elsewhere; the ICRC did not organize nor accompany these civilian movements."
ICRC president Peter Maurer is quoted as saying:
"It is an immense relief that some civilians who have suffered for weeks are now out. The ICRC hasn’t forgotten the people who are still there, nor those in other areas affected by the hostilities or those in dire need of humanitarian relief, wherever they are. We will not spare any effort to reach them."
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