Thousands Evacuated from Devastated Ukrainian City Mariupol

Thousands Evacuated from Devastated Ukrainian City Mariupol
A girl waits in a car at an evacuation point in a convoy of cars and buses carrying hundreds of people evacuated from Mariupol and Melitopol, in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, on March 25, 2022. Chris McGrath/Getty Images
Tom Ozimek
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Thousands of people were successfully evacuated by buses from the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol on Friday, according to Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who called the situation there a “humanitarian catastrophe.”

Zelenskyy said in a video address early Saturday that a humanitarian corridor was operational in Zaporizhzhia, allowing for the evacuation of 3,071 residents from Mariupol.
Tom Ozimek
Tom Ozimek
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Tom Ozimek is a senior reporter for The Epoch Times. He has a broad background in journalism, deposit insurance, marketing and communications, and adult education.
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