Live updates: Ukraine says 765 evacuate besieged Mariupol
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What's happening in Ukraine today: Ukraine's deputy prime minister says 765 residents managed to make it out of Mariupol in private vehicles on Saturday.
Ukraine's deputy prime minister says 765 residents managed to make it out of Mariupol in private vehicles on Saturday.
Iryna Vereshchuk said the residents reached Zaporizhzhia, a city 226 kilometres to the northwest.
Meanwhile, the International Committee of the Red Cross said a team with three vehicles and nine staff members planned to get into Mariupol on Saturday to evacuate residents. The Red Cross said it could not carry out the operation Friday because it did not receive assurances the route was safe. City authorities said the Russians blocked access to the city.
By late Saturday, there was no word if the Red Cross convoy had reached Mariupol, scene of some of the war's worst attacks. Around 100,000 people are believed to remain in the city on the Sea of Azov, down from a prewar population of 430,000, and facing dire shortages of water, food, fuel and medicine.
