Buses carrying more than a thousand evacuees begins journey through Russian-occupied territory
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Ukraine’s government has beseeched Vladimir Putin to let civilians leave the devastated city of Mariupol as a convoy of 15 buses carrying 1,114 evacuees set off on a tense escape through territory occupied by Russian forces.
The convoy of mainly women and children, escorted by Ukraine’s emergency services, faces a 125-mile journey north-west from Berdyansk, a village on the outskirts of Mariupol, to the city of Zaporizhzhia.
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