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Ukrainian Civilians Escape Mariupol Steel Plant
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0:12Now PlayingThe first convoy of civilians to escape from the decimated Avovstal steel plant in Mariupol reached the relative safety of the Ukrainian-controlled city of Zaporizhzhia on Tuesday.
They were allowed to leave the steel mill during a brief cease-fire over the weekend, in an operation overseen by the U.N. and the Red Cross.
In total 101 people, including children, were evacuated from the steelworks, according to Ukrainian officials.
Medical and psychological teams were on standby to assist.
"When we were able to go outside, I saw the sun (on Monday) for the second time in two months," said one of the evacuees, Yelena Tsybulchenko.
The assault on the factory began almost two weeks after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his military not to storm the plant to finish off the defenders but to seal it off.
The Russians' two-month siege of the strategic southern port trapped civilians with little or to food, water, medicine or heat, as Moscow’s forces pounded the city into rubble.
"Every night we went to sleep and thought about whether we would survive and wake up - it was possible that we wouldn't wake up at all," Tsybulchenko said.
Of the 101 evacuees, 58 joined the convoy in a town on the outskirts of Mariupol, according to Ukrainian officials.
The Russian military said earlier that some evacuees chose to stay in separatist areas.
In the past, Ukraine has accused Moscow of taking civilians against their will to Russia or Russian-controlled areas - something the Kremlin has denied.
Russian forces Tuesday began storming the steel mill which represented the last pocket of resistance in Mariupol, Ukrainian defenders said.
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