Ukraine asks Doctors Without Borders to organize a mission at Mariupol’s Azovstal steelworks

Ukraine asked this Saturday the NGO Doctors Without Borders (MSF) to organize a mission to evacuate and care for the soldiers entrenched in the Azovstal steel mill in Mariupolin the southeast of the country, according to an official statement.

The call came hours after the Ukrainian authorities announced that “all women, children and old people” They had been evacuated from the industrial complex, in which there are still Ukrainian military entrenched, the last ones who resist the harassment of the Russian forces against the port city.

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Ukraine “asks a MSF what organize a mission to evacuate the defenders of Mariupol and Azovstal and to provide medical care to the wounded, whose human rights were violated by the Russian Federation”indicated in a statement the Ministry of Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories.

fighters “They have been under (…) bombardment and attacks by the Russian army for 72 days in a row”, sthe ministry pointed out, denouncing the “lack of medicine, water and food” in the plant, and warning that “the wounded soldiers are dying of gangrene and septicemia.”

Previously, the Ukrainian authorities had announced that all civilian women, children and the elderly who were in the tunnels and bunkers under the huge steelworks along with the Ukrainian military, were evacuated.

Source: Elcomercio

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