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Friday, April 22, 2022 12:43 p.m
Russia sings victory and endures the port city Mariupol, south of Ukraine. However, the Kremlin has given up taking over the industrial area where the Azovstal Steelworks It still withstands Russian army attacks and has become a symbol of Ukrainian defense. Thus, Vladimir Putin himself gave the order to call off the attack on the complex and instead fence off the site and that not even “a fly” can pass throughin his own words.
This smelting works stretches far and wide 11 square kilometers southeast of Mariupol. Communicated by train from the outside, some parts have already been destroyed – those marked in red in the video illustrating these lines – but the rest would still serve as Place of refuge for about 2,000 soldiers from various units and members of the Azov battalion. According to Ukraine additionally inside would be a thousand civiliansmany of them relatives of the combatants, including wounded and babies.
How is this smelter? If you look up, as far as you can see with the naked eye, it’s a huge space with so many buildings that the Russians have a hard time finding the Ukrainians. However, one of the keys is below: under the workshops, foundries and chimneys there is a whole Labyrinth of tunnels and bunkers, because the factory was built with their defenses in mind. In each they hid between 80 and 100 people.
This means Azovstal counts in its history two bombings: It was attacked by Hitler in 1941 and now by Putin in 2022. After it was destroyed by the Nazis, the Soviet leaders rebuilt it Warehouses capable of withstanding air arcs and nuclear bombs.