Ukrainian officials say fresh attempts to evacuate civilians from cities under siege in Ukraine are being complicated by constant Russian shelling.
The evacuation comes as fighting continues around Kyiv.
Reports say one of the towns outside the capital being evacuated, says it is not possible to say that the humanitarian ceasefire is holding because explosions and artillery fire, including from the Ukrainian side, can still be heard.
Although humanitarian corridors are being set up from Mariupol, Sumy, and towns and villages outside the capital Kyiv, regional officials say fighting in the area was continuing and that there was a constant threat of air attacks.
Mariupol Deputy Mayor Serhiy Orlov told the BBC a convoy had left Zaporizhzhya for the city carrying aid and including buses for the evacuations, but it was not clear whether it would get through.
The UN also says the situation in Mariupol is particularly desperate after two weeks of bombardment, with little access to food, water, and power.
BBC
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