Ukraine war: 101 evacuees from Mariupol steel plant reach safety; Putin says Russia ready for talks with Ukraine


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Dozens of evacuees who cowered for weeks in the bunkers of a steel works in Russian-occupied Mariupol reached the safety of Kyiv-controlled Zaporizhzhia on Tuesday where hospitals were ready to treat people for anything from burns to malnutrition. Exhausted-looking people, including young children and pensioners laden with bags, clambered off buses that pulled into the car park of a shopping centre in Zaporizhzhia in southern Ukraine not far from the front lines. More than 200 civilians remain in the Azovstal steel plant, according to Mariupol Mayor Vadym Boichenko, with a total of 100,000 civilians still in the city that has...