All women, children and elderly civilians have been evacuated from the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk says.
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The World Health Organisation says it documented 200 attacks on healthcare facilities in Ukraine.
US President Joe Biden announces new security aid to Ukraine and calls on US legislators to approve more funds for the country.
Ukrainian security official warns of “saboteurs and other criminal elements” before Russia’s Victory Day.
US providing additional $150m in military aid to Ukraine
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50 more civilians rescued from besieged steel plant in Mariupol
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Pentagon denies helping Ukraine sink Russian ship Moskva
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UN warns Africa faces ‘unprecedented’ crisis due to Ukraine war
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Kyiv urges MSF to evacuate soldiers from besieged steelworks
Ukraine has urged aid agency Doctors Without Borders (MSF) to evacuate its soldiers from their last holdout in the devastated port city of Mariupol.
The ministry of reintegration of temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine wrote in a statement in English that it “calls on MSF to organise a mission to evacuate the defenders of Mariupol and Azovstal and provide medical care to the wounded people, whose human rights were violated by Russian Federation.”
“Now, there is a lack of medicines, water and food, wounded soldiers are dying because of gangrene and sepsis,” it added.
Ukraine’s Zelenskyy says more than 300 people were saved from Azovstal plant
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says more than 300 civilians have been rescued from the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol.
Zelenskyy said in a late night address that authorities would now focus on a second stage of the evacuation, aimed at rescuing the wounded and medics, and work on humanitarian corridors for all residents of Mariupol and surrounding settlements.
He also said Kyiv was attempting to negotiate the evacuation of Ukrainian “defenders” from the steel mill but that it had been “extremely difficult.”
Around 2,000 civilians trapped in Popasna as rescue efforts: AJE correspondent
Al Jazeera’s Charles Stratford says attempts to rescue civilians trapped in the besieged town of Popasna, in eastern Ukraine, have been suspended because too dangerous.
Sergei Rosco, a former construction worker whom Stratford filmed before he set off as a volunteer driver, was reported missing and is feared killed.
Igor, a volunteer driving alongside Rosco, said the Russian military launched rocket-propelled grenades and then fired at them with machine guns. “Sergei kept driving but he was hit,” he said.
Rosco had told Igor before leaving that “if I can save 20 more people, my life will not have been in vain.”
