Ukraine has confirmed that hundreds of its fighters trapped for more than two months in Mariupol's Azovstal steelworks have been evacuated.

Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Maliar in a statement said that 53 badly wounded soldiers were taken to the town of Novoazovsk.

She said another 211 were evacuated using a humanitarian corridor to Olenivka town.

Russia earlier said a deal had been reached to evacuate the injured troops.