As we ve been hearing, those who managed to evacuate mariupol with the help of aid agencies and ukrainian forces are being taken to the city of zaporizhzhia. but disagreements on safe passages and broken ceasefires have led to many stalled attempts. in the last few hours, though, more than 170 civilians have arrived in zaporizhzhia in a convoy of eight buses. more than 600 people have evacuated mariupol in the last 10 days. among the latest arrivals were a0 people who had been sheltering at the azovstal steel plant. translation: here are - children s paintings that i ve brought with me as a souvenir. it was a motivation for me to wake up in the morning. to make breakfast, dinner, to entertain children, to make them forget about war. translation: yes, the plant is in ruins. it was hard to climb over metallic debris. they walked us through some pathways. if there was a workshop before, now, it s like a ruin. well, those military parades
Of their war torn lives. and even amid the scattered ruins of their school, some have found a place to play. those who managed to evacuate mariupol with the help of aid agencies and ukrainian forces are being taken to the city of zaporizhzhia. but disagreements on safe passages and broken ceasefires have led to many stalled attempts. in the last few hours, though, more than a 170 civilians have arrived in zaporizhzhia in a convoy of eight buses. more than 600 people have evacuated mariupol in the last 10 days. among the latest arrivals were a0 people who had been sheltering at the azovstal steel plant. translation: here are the children s paintingsl that i brought with me as a souvenir. it was a motivation for me to wake up in the morning, to make breakfast, dinner,
Recall any of that. those left behind in mariupol must make what they can of their war torn lives. and even amid the scattered ruins of their school, some have found a place to play. laura bicker, bbc news, zaporizhzhia. those who managed to evacuate mariupol with the help of aid agencies and ukrainian forces are being taken to the city of zaporizhzhia, but disagreements on safe passages to many stalled attempts. in the last few hours, though, more than a 170 civilians have arrived in zaporizhzhia in a convoy of eight buses. more than 600 people have evacuated mariupol in the last 10 days. among the latest arrivals were a0 people who had been sheltering at the azovstal steel plant. translation: here are - children s paintings that i ve brought with me as a souvenir. it was a motivation for me
The steel plant. it is, of course, more complicated there, jim and erica, because you have ukrainian forces on one side and russian forces on the other, versus the other evacuation operation coming strictly from russian-held territory. all of this taken together is some good news in a city that desperately needs it. matt, thank you for that. we want to turn to nick paton walsh in zaporizhzhia where some of those folks are finally arriving from mariupol. good morning. what more can you tell us in terms of what you re hearing from those evacuees? reporter: yeah, at this point i should stress, you know, this is a nuanced situation here. at this point we re not seeing signs here at the reception center for evacuees. those who are part of this globally publicized move are actually arriving here. forgive me, i m on my camera because of some technical difficulties, my camera phone. behind me we ve seen occasional arrivals of people who evacuated