About 100,000 Mariupol residents remain in the city and are waiting to be evacuated. Its successful implementation requires a stable regime of silence, which is often not observed by the russian occupiers.
It was reported by the mayor of Mariupol Vadym Boychenko at the Media Center "Ukraine".
«100,000 people are waiting to be given a chance of being rescued. We must join our forces, not give up and continue the evacuation of civilians. It is difficult to organize a mission, but we must make every effort together with the international community to do so», he said.
Vadym Boychenko added that he can’t say with confidence that there are not any civilians on the territory of the Azovstal plant.
«In order to be able to say 100% whether the evacuation of civilians is over, we need a stable regime of silence. After all, our military must go to the bomb shelters and check if there are people. And the russians don’t give such an opportunity. We assume that civilians waiting for evacuation may be there», the mayor of Mariupol said.
During the first evacuation of civilians from the Azovstal plant, which began on May 1, 156 people were taken out to Zaporizhya . On May 6, another 50 women, children and the elderly were removed from Azovstal. On the same day, during the evacuation of civilians from the plant’s bomb shelters, the russians killed three Ukrainian defenders and wounded six others.