Russian army and pro-Russian forces attack the Ukrainian Azovstal plant in Mariupol with “artillery and planes”

The Russian army and pro-Russian forces launched an offensive against the Azovstalthe last stronghold of Ukrainian resistance in the city of Mariupol (south), from which civilians have been evacuated in recent days thanks to a ceasefire.

“Units of the Russian Army and the Donetsk People’s Republicusing artillery and aircraft, began to destroy” the “firing positions” of the Ukrainian fighters who left the plant, the Defense Ministry said, quoted by Russian agencies.

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The spokesman for the Russian armed forces stated that the ukrainian Azov Battalion, that defends the plant, “used” the declared ceasefire to evacuate civilians to get out of the basements of the steel plant and “take firing positions on the territory and in the factory buildings.”

“We were bombed all night (…) two women died and now there is an assault against Azovstal”, declared Sviatoslav Palamar, deputy commander of the Azov battalion, on the Ukraïnska Pravda internet news page.

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The official asked the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskymake “forceful decisions because the situation is very difficult.”

Some 100 civilians were evacuated over the weekend from the huge steelworks Azovstal from Mariupol, a port city in the southern Donbas region that is practically under Russian control.

Source: Elcomercio

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