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Petro Andriushchenko, an advisor to the mayor of Mariupol, told RFE/RL that a "silence regime" remains for the time being. Earlier, Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar said that 264 Ukrainian soldiers were evacuated on May 16 from the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol to hospitals in Russian-occupied Novoazovsk and Olenivka.