Red Cross team attempting to help civilians in Mariupol forced to retreat
Ukrainian rescue workers carry an elderly woman under the destroyed bridge in Irpin, close to Kyiv close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, April 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
An International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) team that had been on its way to Mariupol on Friday to facilitate the safe passage of civilians was forced to retreat.
The team had to return to Zaporizhzhia after arrangements and conditions made it impossible to proceed, the ICRC said on Friday.
