On Wednesday, May 4, with the support of the UN and the Red Cross, the evacuation of civilians from the Azov region to Zaporozhye, including from the occupied Mariupol, will take place, said the head of the Donetsk military administration Pavel Kirilenko.

According to him, the buses left Mariupol in the morning and will make stops for replanting passengers in the Zaporozhye region:.

– Tokmok at 15:00;

– Vasilievka at 16:00.

“In Tokmok there will be an opportunity to join the column on your own transport. Pass the information on to those who need it! "

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Earlier, the mayor of Mariupol, Vadim Boychenko, said that more than 100 thousand people remain in the occupied city, including at least 200 directly on the territory of the Azovstal plant..

On May 1, the long-awaited evacuation of civilians from the Mariupol metallurgical plant Azovstal finally began. On that day, about a hundred Ukrainians managed to be taken out.

According to preliminary data, there were about a thousand Mariupol civilians in the bomb shelters of the Azovstal plant, including about 60 children.. Also there are several hundred wounded Ukrainian soldiers..