been trying to evacuate people from mariupol, they were doing that in coordination with the ukrainian government. the plan was they would escort a convoy of at least a0 ukrainian buses and take with them medical supplies from zaporyzhzhia to mariupol but they failed as they tried to get there, they could not make it to the city and so instead, separately, mariupol residents who were trapped in the city that has been besieged by russian forces, and thousands of them took the risk themselves and ended up fleeing from mariupol to a town nearby still in russian held territory called berdiansk. and it is there a convoy of at least a0 ukrainian buses, 300 private cars, managed to get to these residents and take them to the relative safety of zaporyzhzhia. the fact is this is positive, you have president zelensky saying they have managed to save 3,000 people from a city that is without food