More Ukrainian soldiers were evacuated from the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol on May 18. Several buses accompanied by Russian military vehicles were seen pulling away from the plant. The fighters who emerged from the ruined plant face an uncertain fate after being ordered by their military to abandon the last stronghold of resistance in the now-flattened port city. It is unclear how many fighters remained inside the plant's labyrinth of tunnels and bunkers, where 2,000 were previously believed to be holed up.