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The struggle continues to get civilians out of Mariupol: 'The city no longer exists' | Abroad | DR UN will evacuate Ukrainians from the besieged Azovstal steelworks. Meanwhile, fleeing residents are talking about a city that no longer exists. Of A ruin heap. Hell on earth. A humanitarian catastrophe. There has been no shortage of grim descriptions of the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol in recent weeks. Here, the city has lacked necessities such as water, heat, electricity, food and security. Before the war, Mariupol was home to about 450,000 people, but large parts of it important port city was soon turned into rubble when Russia at the beginning of the war launched an extensive siege and constant smashing bombings.According to this, 21,000 people are estimated to have lost their lives in the city, - something like Russia .100,000 people are still believed to be in the city where Attempts to create humanitarian corridors out of the city have failed. Therefore, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres yesterday called for a "full mobilization" of humanitarian resources to save lives in Mariupol. facing a crisis in the crisis in Mariupol. Thousands desperately need lifesaving humanitarian aid, and many need evacuation, the chief said. Meanwhile, evacuees are talking about not having much to return to. , the last remaining Ukrainian soldiers have survived in the city's huge Azovstal steelworks. The port of Mariupol. Among the fortified soldiers is one who has played a leading role in the defense of Mariupol. On Monday, Russia announced that it would stop the fighting at the steel plant to give those staying at the plant an opportunity to leave the area. . But the message from the Ukrainian was that Russia had not agreed on an evacuation with them and that it requires two parties to create a humanitarian corridor. Yesterday, the message was that President Putin "in principle" has agreed to let and the Red Cross are taking part in the evacuation of the besieged steelworks Azovstal in the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol. How this will happen is still unclear. But the message from the mayor's office in Mariupol today is that the Russian attacks continue, writes .This afternoon, the Ukrainian commander sent Serhiy Volyna to ensure an evacuation of the soldiers and those inside the Azovstal. According to Volyna, supplies are running out , while 600 wounded soldiers lack medicine.In recent weeks, bombings have turned large parts of Mariupol into ruins, and according to, 90 percent of the city's buildings have been destroyed, writes The Guardian. week came up from their basement and fled the city after two months underground.- We were speechless. We could not believe our eyes when we first saw it, he told the French media AFP on Friday. - The children just went silent. They probably could not believe that the city did not exist anymore. Evgeny Tishenko says that he and his wife and four children fled from Mariupol on foot and walked over 100 kilometers before they were picked up by a volunteer who delivered. The kids were super tired, but they understood - they knew where we were going. For the past two months, where we have been sitting in the basement, we have told them that we would flee, he says. And he is not alone in experiencing that the city has been smashed beyond recognition. - It was a miracle that we escaped out of hell, said the fugitive resident Yuriy Lulac on Thursday.- Mariupol is gone. There are only graves and crosses between the ruins. This fugitive woman told last week about the feeling of being left with nothing after arriving in Zaporizhia, which has become a gathering place for many refugees from Mariupol: While trying to get the detainees from Mariupol, it is In recent weeks, some have managed to escape from the bombed-out port city. Among other things, they have arrived in Bulgaria, says Antoniya Tilkova. She is the leader of SOS Children's Villages and has a children's village outside the capital Sofia that will receive refugees from the war in Ukraine. In the last three weeks she has received 18 refugees - including several from Mariupol, and she expects to accommodate 100 Ukrainians soon. refugees in the village. She says that those who arrived from Mariupol had to flee on foot. - At first they had to walk for days because there was no humanitarian corridor, says Antoniya Tilkova to Nyheder.- Subsequently, their home was completely smashed. They have no home to return to. Everything they had is gone, she says. - What they are most worried about is their husbands and the elderly, who have not been able to escape. They are very afraid that they will perish. It is something they talk a lot about, she says. At the same time, there is uncertainty about how long they will have to stay in Bulgaria. At first it was planned that they would be housed for a year, but the development in Mariupol, among other places, makes it difficult to imagine a life there in the near future. - All the mothers said that they expected it to last a few weeks. Now two months have passed and it does not seem to stop. So there is great uncertainty about the future, says Antoniya Tilkova, who points out that it can take several years after the war to rebuild bombed cities like Mariupol. Meanwhile, they try to give them a normal everyday life, says the leader, who points out, that the most important thing the mothers demand is safety for their children, while the children need psychological help.- The most important thing for us is to give them hope and help them feel at home again. We are sad that they are not at home with their families, but we are trying to show them that they are in a safe environment now.