ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) — The United Nations confirms that an operation to evacuate people from a steel plant in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol is underway. A U.N. humanitarian spokespeson told The Associated Press on Sunday that the effort to bring people out of the sprawling Azovstal steel plant was being done with the International Committee for the Red Cross and in coordination with Ukrainian and Russian officials. He called the situation “very complex” and would not give further details. Up to 1,000 civilians are believed to be hunkered down with an estimated 2,000 Ukrainian fighters beneath the Soviet-era steel plant that is the only part of the city not occupied by the Russians.
Evacuations underway in Mariupol; Pelosi visits Ukraine
