The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, says he voiced concern that evacuees from the Azovstal steelworks could be taken by Russian forces into Russian territory.

The United Nations and International Committee of the Red Cross began an operation coordinated with Ukraine and Russia on 29 April to bring out women, children and elderly people from the plant and the first evacuees have arrived in the Ukrainian-controlled city of Zaporizhzhia.

Zelenskiy said the UN secretary general, António Guterres, had promised civilians would be brought to safety in Ukraine-controlled territory under agreement with Russia