Ukraine: Red Cross hopes to evacuate besieged Mariupol, while UN says 4,137,842 Ukrainians have now fled their nation | South China Morning Post


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A Red Cross convoy were to try again to evacuate civilians from the besieged port of Mariupol on Saturday as Russian forces looked to be regrouping for new attacks in southeast Ukraine. Encircled since the early days of Russia’s five-week-old invasion, Mariupol has been Moscow’s main target in Ukraine’s southeastern region of Donbas. Tens of thousands are still trapped in the city with scant access to food and water. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) sent a team on Friday to lead a convoy of about 54 Ukrainian buses and other private vehicles out of the city but...