Buses carrying Ukrainian forces from the besieged Azovstal steel plant Tuesday pass by the sculpture “Metallurgist,” near the entrance to Mariupol. More than 260 Ukrainian soldiers have been evacuated from the besieged Azovstal steel plant in the port city of Mariupol after 82 days of bombardment. Photo: VCG

Buses carrying Ukrainian forces from besieged Azovstal steel plant are seen outside a pre-trial detention center in Olenivka, Donetsk, on Monday. Photo: VCG

Ukrainian service members are seen inside a bus driving away from the besieged Azovstal steel plant on Monday. Photo: VCG

53 heavily wounded soldiers were evacuated to hospital in the Russian-controlled town of Novoazovsk, and more than 200 others were transported via humanitarian corridor to Olenivka, Ukraine’s deputy defense minister, Hanna Maliar, said late Monday. Photo: VCG

A Ukrainian serviceman clutching a crutch sits on a bus Tuesday. Photo: VCG

A wounded Ukrainian soldier from the steel plant gets lifted out of a bus on a stretcher in Novoazovsk on Monday. Photo: IC

Wounded Ukrainian servicemen are stacked up in a bus before their evacuation from the Azovstal steel plant Tuesday. Photo: IC Photo

Surrendered Ukrainian forces from Azovstal wait on board a bus in Olenivka, Donetsk, on Tuesday. Photo: VCG

Smoke belches from the Azovstal plant on April 14. Hundreds of Ukrainian fighters were trapped for more than two months there before Tuesday’s evacuation. Photo: VCG