About 2,000 cars have been able to leave the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol and a further 2,000 are waiting to leave, the city council said in an online post on Tuesday.
"As of 14:00 (1200 GMT), it is known that 2,000 cars have left Mariupol," it said.
(Reporting by Pavel Polityuk, Writing by Alessandra Prentice, Editing by Timothy Heritage)