FILE PHOTO: Children chat as they take shelter amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine in a bunker said by Ukraine’s Azov Battalion to be in Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol, Ukraine in this screen grab taken from a handout video released on April 18, 2022. Azov Battalion/Handout via REUTERS
Ukraine's deputy prime minister Iryna Vereshchuk on Thursday demanded Russia urgently allow the evacuation of civilians and wounded soldiers from the besieged Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol via a humanitarian corridor.
"There are about 1,000 civilians and 500 wounded soldiers there. They all need to be pulled out of Azovstal today," Vereshchuk said in an online post.
FILE PHOTO: A woman holding a child walks past at as they take shelter amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine in a bunker said by Ukraine's Azov Battalion to be in Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol, Ukraine in this screen grab taken from a handout video released on April 18, 2022. Azov Battalion/Handout via REUTERS
(Reporting by Aleksandar Vasovic and Pavel Polityuk; Editing by Toby Chopra)
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