Shivering evacuees drive to safety from Ukraine's besieged Mariupol

ZAPORIZHZHIA, UKRAINE - Exhausted, shivering and travelling in cars with shattered windscreens or no windows, some of the first evacuees from Ukraine's besieged Mariupol drove into the nearest safe city of Zaporizhzhia on Tuesday .

His family was among around 570 carloads who arrived in Zaporizhzhia, around 250 kilometres northwest.Arriving in small batches, private vehicles with scraps of white material tied to the wing mirrors in a sign of truce pulled into the car park of a shopping centre on the city's outskirts, which is now a registration centre for displaced people.

"As we passed through, there was a burnt-out car. Soldiers said a woman had been blown up after she hit a mine just one hour before we got there," he said. The first successful evacuations come after several failed attempts since Russian forces surrounded the port city on the Azov Sea early this month.An aerial view shows smoke rising from damaged residential buildings in Mariupol on March 14, 2022. PHOTO: REUTERS

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