Civilians evacuated from Ukraine’s Mariupol

KYIV/BEZIMENNE, Ukraine --- Around 50 Ukrainian civilians reached the relative safety of a temporary camp in Russian-held territory on Sunday after being evacuated from a ruined steelworks in Mariupol, where the United Nations said a "safe passage operation" was in progress. With fighting stretching along a broad front in southern and eastern Ukraine, US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi pledged continued US support for Ukraine when she met President Volodymyr Zelensky in an unannounced visit to Kyiv. Russia said it had destroyed a stock of Western-supplied weapons at an airfield near Odesa, in southern Ukraine. Mariupol, a strategic port city on the Azov Sea, ha...

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