Mariupol Civilians Flee as Russia Attacks Eastern Ukraine
A woman arrives from Mariupol at a registration and processing area for internally displaced people in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, on May 2.
Photographer: Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images
This is a special daily brief on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, one of the most urgent security crises in Europe since World War II.
About 100 civilians have been evacuated from the besieged Azovstal steel plant in the eastern port city of Mariupol, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, in an operation involving the United Nations and Red Cross.