People cover from shelling inside an entryway to an apartment building in Mariupol, Ukraine, Sunday, March 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
More than 2,100 residents have been killed in the besieged southeastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol since the Russian invasion, according to the city authorities.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says the situation in Mariupol “remains dire” and that it is not able to deliver aid to the city.
“The bottom line is that hundreds of thousands of people are still suffering,” the ICRC says.
Some 2,000 civilian cars have been able to drive out of Mariupol today along a humanitarian evacuation route, city authorities say.
“As of 14:00 (1200 GMT) it is known that 2,000 cars left Mariupol,” the city council says on Telegram, adding that a further 2,000 vehicles were waiting to leave the city.
The statement does not specify how many people left in the vehicles.
Another 160 cars had left the city yesterday, the council says.
A woman walks past a burning apartment building after shelling in Mariupol, Ukraine, Sunday, March 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
The successful evacuations come after several failed attempts since Russian forces surrounded the port city on the Azov Sea early this month.
Heavy bombardment has left some 400,000 inhabitants with no running water or heating and food running short.
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