Mariupol, Melitopol residents arrive in Zaporizhzhia

Описание: (26 Mar 2022) Buses arrived in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia on Friday carrying evacuated residents from nearby Mariupol and Melitopol.
The displaced were met by volunteers at the car park of a shopping centre, which was turned into a makeshift processing facility amid Russia's invasion of the country.
Officials there were registering the evacuees and assiging them to temporary residences.
Refugees were also leaving Zaporizhzhia on train services bound for safer parts of the country.
The port city of Mariupol has seen some of the most intense bombardments of the conflict so far.
About 300 people there were killed in a Russian airstrike last week on a theatre that was being used as a shelter.
Ukrainian authorities said Friday in what would make it the war's deadliest known attack on civilians yet.

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