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Many civilians still trapped in Mariupol as Russian deadline expires; refugees top 5 million
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KYIV, 21 April 2022, (TON): President Volodymyr Zelensky said “about 1,000 civilians remain trapped at a steel plant where Ukrainian forces are making their last stand in the besieged city of Mariupol.”
Zelensky said “conditions in Mariupol, which has seen the worst fighting of the nearly eight-week long war, continued to worsen, though Reuters witnesses said a few dozen civilians managed to leave the city on Wednesday in a small bus convoy.”
The United Nations said the total number of refugees who have fled Ukraine since Russia invaded on Feb. 24 had now topped five million.
More than half are children.
Ukraine said it had so far held off an assault by thousands of Russian troops attempting to advance in what Kyiv calls the Battle of the Donbas, a new campaign to seize two eastern provinces Moscow claims on behalf of separatists.
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