That Azovstal Metallurgical Plantin the port of the besieged city Mariupolbecame the last bastion of the Ukrainian resistance in the city hardest hit by Russian forces in the war in Ukraine. The steel mill has 11 kilometers A network of ships, train tracks, tunnels and dozens of buildings have long since been more than destroyed by bombs from outside and inside 1,000 people fight back and Protection of the Russian armed forces.
Azovstal It was built in the era of Soviet Unionhas several underground levels with bunker communicated by kilometers and kilometers tunnel. In them, Ukrainian soldiers move and civilians hide. The Russian takeover of the city of Mariupol is getting closer every day and the last hope is the metallurgical plant. And it is that after 56 days of invasion and intense bombing, the city of 430,000 “no longer exists,” according to the authorities Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba.
the analyst Oleh Zhdanov He told Reuters that the plant was “such a big space with so many buildings that the Russians just can’t find the Ukrainian soldiers.” It was founded in Mariupol in 1930 and started production in 1935. The soldiers were well aware that this type of steel works did good air raid shelters.
Captured in Mariupol
Of 430,000 Residents denounce the city council still 100,000 are still trapped in place. Authorities are still looking for a way to evacuate civilians from an “apocalyptic” city. An agreement to open a was announced this Wednesday morning humanitarian corridor that allows to escape 6,000 civilians in about 90 buses.
Russia has launched another ultimatum to the Ukrainian armed forces resisting at the Azovstal plant. They demand that they lay down their arms this Wednesday. “Despite the complete irresponsibility of the officials of the Kiev regime, the Russian Armed Forces, in order to save their military personnel, guided by purely human principles, once again offer the fighters of the nationalist and mercenary battalions to stop fighting and disarm at 2:00 a.m. local time “, he said Head of the National Defense Control Center, Mikhail Mizintsev.
Zelenskyy assures that the situation is “as serious as possible”
That President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy He asserts that the situation in the besieged city of Mariupol remains “as serious as possible”. “The Russian military is blocking all efforts to organize humanitarian corridors and save our people. The fate of at least tens of thousands of Mariupol residents previously resettled in Russian-controlled territory is unknown,” he said.