Ukraine hopes on Friday to evacuate civilians who are holed up in a vast steel works with the last fighters defending the southern city of Mariupol, APA reports citing Reuters.
"An operation is planned today to get civilians out of the plant," President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's office said without giving details.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said after meeting Zelenskiy in Kyiv on Thursday that intense discussions were under way to enable the evacuation of the Azovstal steel plant.