Women and children in Mariupol’s besieged Azovstal steel plant say they are “running out of strength” and need to be urgently evacuated to Ukrainian-controlled territory, according to footage which has emerged from the factory.
In the video, which was filmed on Thursday, an unnamed woman says that food and water have almost run out, with people “on the edge of hunger”.
"All the provisions we brought with us are running out. Soon we won’t even have enough food for the children.
We are here and need help. We are at the epicentre of events and we can’t get out. My child needs to be evacuated to a peaceful area and others too. We beg for guarantees of safety for our kids.”
More than 300 people, including 90 children, were forcibly deported to Russia from Mariupol, the adviser to the city’s mayor has claimed.
In a post to Telegram, Petro Andryushchenko said that 308 people were taken to Vladivostok on 21 April. Vladivostok is more than 9,000km east of Mariupol.
The statement, which was reported by the Kyiv Independent, follows other reports of hundreds of Mariupol residents being forcibly moved to Russia. Ukrainian citizens have described being sent to “filtration camps” before being forcibly relocated to Russia.
Russia has shelled a Ukrainian border post in the north of Ukraine, the country’s border guard service said.
In a statement posted online, the agency said that around 10 grenades had exploded near the village of Senkivka in the Chernihiv region on Friday night.
Chernihiv is situated near where the Ukrainian, Russian, and Belarusian borders meet.
The statement said the grenades had been fired by a launcher from Russian territory, and that it was the fourth time the area had been shelled since Russian forces withdrew from the region.
It added that no border guards were injured in the strike.
A missile has struck infrastructure in the Ukrainian port city of Odesa, local authorities said.
A statement posted online said the strike occurred on Saturday, though gave no further details.
“Odesa was hit by a missile strike. Infrastructure has been hit,” it read.
Odesa is situated on the Black Sea on Ukraine’s southern coast and has been a key target of Russian forces since the beginning of the invasion.
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