Diplomatic efforts are underway to evacuate the remaining civilians and soldiers holed up in the Azovstal steel plant in the besieged city of Mariupol, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said.Rescuers sought to get more civilians out on Saturday, following a week of on-and-off convoys to try to save residents of Mariupol. It was unclear if any evacuations were successful, after a group of 50 civilians, including children, were able to leave the plant Friday in an operation coordinated by the UN and the Red Cross.A total of 176 civilians had now been evacuated from the steelworks, according to the territorial defense headquarters of the self-declared Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR). That figure could not be verified by Western media. International authorities said about 500 people have escaped Mariupol in the past few days.
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