“Ukraine needs the living “Ukrainian heroes”, the President of Ukraine pointed out last night Volodymyr Zelensky confirming that the evacuation of the Ukrainian defenders of the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol had begun.
“Thanks to the actions of the Ukrainian army – the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the intelligence service, the negotiating team, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the United Nations, we hope to be able to save the lives of our children. Among them are the seriously injured, they are provided with medical assistance. I want to emphasize: Ukraine needs living Ukrainian heroes. These are our principles. “I think any intelligent person will understand these words,” he said.
“Or we have a hope that we can save the lives of our children,” Zelensky said. “There are serious injuries among them and they need medical help.”
The Ukrainian president noted that Kyiv hopes that all soldiers will return to their country as soon as possible. “We are working at the moment to bring the children back home, but this job it is very thin and time consumingHe clarified.
The Russian Ministry of Defense announced on Monday that an agreement had been reached to remove wounded Ukrainian troops from the steel plant and opened a humanitarian corridor for that purpose.
The Russian ministry added that a ceasefire had been decided in the vicinity of the plant and that a humanitarian corridor had been opened to allow the wounded Ukrainian soldiers to be transported to a medical unit in the “Donetsk People’s Republic”.
THE Ukrainian side announced that 53 severely wounded Ukrainian soldiers were transported on May 16 from the Azovstal plant in Donetsk, while another 211 Ukrainian soldiers were removed from the plant via a humanitarian corridor in the town of Gelenovka (also in Donetsk).
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