Evacuation of Azovstal plant in Mariupol – in pictures

Ukrainian soldiers have been evacuated from Mariupol’s Azovstal steel plant, which had become a symbol of resistance.

Main image: A Ukrainian soldier enjoys the sun after the long siege in the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol. Photograph: Dmytro Kozatsky

  • A wounded service member is transported on a stretcher
    A wounded service member is transported on a stretcher

  • Ukraine said 53 heavily wounded soldiers were evacuated to a hospital in the Russian-controlled town of Novoazovsk
    A wounded service member is transported on a stretcher

  • More than 200 others were transported through a corridor to Olenivka
    Buses involved in the evacuation

  • A bus carrying Ukrainian fighters drives away under escort of the pro-Russia military
    A bus carrying Ukrainian fighters drives away under escort of the pro-Russia military

  • The evacuation is likely to mark the end of the longest and bloodiest battle of the Ukraine war
    A bus carrying Ukrainian fighters

  • Azovstal’s last defenders had been holding out in bunkers and tunnels built deep underground
    A Ukrainian soldier soaks up the sunlight

  • Ukrainian servicemen carry a wounded comrade as they are being evacuated from the besieged Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, Ukraine, 17 May 2022.
    Ukrainian servicemen carry a wounded comrade as they are being evacuated from the besieged Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, Ukraine, 17 May 2022.

  • Ukrainian servicemen sitting in a bus as they are being evacuated from the besieged Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, Ukraine, 17 May 2022.
    Ukrainian servicemen sitting in a bus as they are being evacuated from the besieged Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, Ukraine, 17 May 2022.

  • Injured Ukrainian service members as they are searched by pro-Russian military personnel after leaving the besieged Azovstal steel plant in Ukraine’s port city of Mariupol.
    Injured Ukrainian service members as they are searched by pro-Russian military personnel after leaving the besieged Azovstal steel plant in Ukraine’s port city of Mariupol.

  • Ukrainian servicemen carry a wounded comrade as they are being evacuated from the besieged Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol.
    Ukrainian servicemen carry a wounded comrade as they are being evacuated from the besieged Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol.

  • Wounded Ukrainian servicemen wait in a bus as they are being evacuated from the besieged Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, Ukraine, 17 May 2022.
    Wounded Ukrainian servicemen wait in a bus as they are being evacuated from the besieged Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, Ukraine, 17 May 2022.
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