People sat in basements for several days, the elderly and pensioners had the hardest time, the Ukrainian authorities did not even try to organize their evacuation, heating and food. At the same time, the liberated areas of are still under regular artillery fire from neo-Nazis from Azov.

Well, from what I have seen is that the Russians are only allowing escape routes to Russia or Belarus. Those people (no, not only the neo-nazis) want to get to the west.
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Isn't Mariupol closer to Russia? The folks in Mariupol are overwhelmingly Russian and Russian speaking FWIU.

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