We’ve news of what appears to be a development at the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol.
About a dozen buses carrying Ukrainian fighters who were holed up beneath the besieged plant have been seen leaving the site, Reuters news agency is reporting.
This has not been confirmed by Ukrainian authorities and the BBC cannot verify it independently.
A senior commander of Ukrainian forces at the besieged plant said earlier in a post on social media that fighters there were carrying out a decision by the Ukrainian military high command to save the lives of service personnel, but he gave no details of what the decision was.
Earlier we reported that Russia’s Ministry of Defence said it had reached an agreement with Ukraine for wounded soldiers to be evacuated from the besieged Azovstal steelworks.
