A “powerful bomb” was allegedly dropped by the Russians on a hospital near Azovstal in Mariupol, a Ukrainian MP Sergiy Taruta wrote on Twitter. According to the deputy: “Under the rubble lie 300 people, including children.” The Ukrainian agency UNIAN has also relaunched the tweet, but there has not yet been any feedback from the international media. According to the deputy, several civilian refugees were accommodated in the affected building “because there are no other places to hide in a destroyed city”.
At 4 p.m. Italian time, the Russian Defense Ministry issued an ultimatum to Ukrainian troops to leave the area of the Azovstal steel plant, along with the civilians who stayed with the soldiers. According to the Interfax agency, Russian troops opened a humanitarian corridor to allow: “the withdrawal of the Ukrainian military and fighters of nationalist groups who voluntarily laid down their arms said the head of control of Russia’s national defense Mikhail Mizintsev To this end a regime of complete silence was introduced, all military operations were suspended, units of the Russian Armed Forces and formations of the Donetsk People’s Republic withdrew to a safe distance along the entire perimeter of the “Azov Valley”. .
The final Russian attack on the Azovstal factory began a few hours ago with the announcement by the commander of the Donetsk People’s Republic Eduard Ballarin and military spokesman for the proRussian separatists in the region. According to the Ukrainians, there are a thousand civilians in the factory, including women and children who took refuge in the basement. In the morning, the Russian Defense Ministry had ordered Ukrainian and foreign fighters at the factory to surrender by noon (11 a.m. Italian time) and to leave the premises unarmed between 2 p.m. and 4 p.m.
Wiretapping in Kyiv: “Moscow will raze the steelworks to the ground”
Meanwhile, on Telegram, the Ukrainian security service leaked a wiretapping of a phone conversation in which a Russian soldier was allegedly discussing an order from the leadership to destroy the Azovstal Steel Works in Mariupol. This was announced by the Ukrinform agency. “Despite the higher number, the Russian occupiers cannot capture Ukrainian Mariupol. That’s why they want to raze the Azovstal Steelworks where our fighters are holding the defense.’ And once again: “The squatters overlook the fact that civilians are also hiding in the facility. The Russians are preparing threeton “surprises” from the sky ».
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