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Ukraine hopes to evacuate civilians from Mariupol steel works where fighters are holding out

Ukraine Mariupol Azovstal (Organization)
FILE PHOTO: A view shows a plant of Azovstal Iron and Steel Works behind buildings damaged during Ukraine-Russia conflict in the southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine April 28, 2022. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko

Ukraine hopes on Friday to evacuate civilians who are holed up with Ukrainian fighters in the vast Azovstal steel plant in the southern city of Mariupol.

"An operation is planned today to get civilians out of the plant," President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's office said without giving details.

(Reporting by Natalia Zinets, Editing by Timothy Heritage)

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