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Some Mariupol residents now fleeing on foot as evacuation efforts fail
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Local residents carry water from the food warehouse, on the territory which is under the Government of the Donetsk People's Republic control, on the outskirts of Mariupol, Ukraine, March 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov)
Residents of Ukraine’s besieged city of Mariupol are resorting to escaping on foot, Reuters quotes the region’s governor Pavlo Kyrylenko as saying.
Kyrylenko says official evacuation efforts have mostly failed due to ongoing shelling by Russian forces.
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