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Post by Admin on Apr 20, 2022 20:06:26 GMT
Ukrainian commander says forces in Mariupol facing 'last days' 39,265 views Apr 20, 2022 A Ukrainian commander from the 36th separate marine brigade in the besieged city of Mariupol has made an urgent plea in a video shared on his Facebook page, saying that his forces were probably facing their 'last days, if not hours'.
Serhiy Volyna said his troops were outnumbered 10 to one and appealed to world leaders to help 500 wounded soldiers and hundreds of civilians trapped in the city. 'We ask them to use the procedure of extraction and take us to the territory of a third-party state,' he said
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Post by Admin on Apr 21, 2022 15:03:23 GMT
Putin tells forces to seal off last Mariupol fighters - BBC News 339,163 views Apr 21, 2022 Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered his troops not to storm the Azovstal steel plant, where the last group of Ukrainian fighters in Mariupol is holding out.
Instead, the president told them to seal it up so "not even a fly can escape" and said Russia has control of the strategic port city.
The massive, four square-mile plant has become the last bastion of Ukrainian resistance in Mariupol.
Ukraine's deputy prime minister has demanded that Russia allow an immediate humanitarian corridor for civilians to escape the steelworks in Mariupol.
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Post by Admin on Apr 21, 2022 21:56:21 GMT
Has Russia taken the Ukrainian city of Mariupol? - BBC News 94,090 views Apr 22, 2022 Russian President Vladimir Putin has congratulated his defence minister for capturing the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, but parts of the city are still holding out.
A steel works is at the centre of the defence of the city where fighters and civilians are dug in mostly underground.
President Putin has ordered his troops to block off the industrial area so that "a fly cannot not pass through".
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Post by Admin on Apr 22, 2022 17:10:26 GMT
Ukraine war ‘a horror story of violations against civilians’ - BBC News 22,161 views Apr 23, 2022 Russia’s war in Ukraine has been described as a “horror story of violations against civilians in which respect for international law has been tossed aside”, by the UN human rights office.
The UN monitoring mission in Ukraine has documented the unlawful killings of 50 civilians in Bucha, north west of Kyiv.
It said such killings amount to war crimes.
The statement comes as Ukrainian officials accuse Russian forces of burying the bodies of hundreds of civilians in mass graves outside the besieged city of Mariupol.
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Post by Admin on Apr 22, 2022 20:32:34 GMT
Satellite photos of what appeared to be rows upon rows of freshly dug mass graves on the outskirts of Mariupol brought the horrors of the war increasingly into focus, as Russia pounded away Friday at Ukrainian holdouts in the city’s steel mill and other targets in a drive to seize the country’s industrial east. “Every day they drop several bombs on Azovstal,” Petro Andryushchenko, an adviser to Mariupol’s mayor, said of the besieged steelworks. “Fighting, shelling, bombing do not stop.” Cities elsewhere in the Donbas also came under Russian fire overnight, and the attacks interfered with attempts to evacuate civilians. The region, home to coal mines, metal plants and heavy-equipment factories, is bracing for what could be a decisive campaign as Russian President Vladimir Putin attempts to salvage a victory from the 8-week-old war widely seen as a blunder and a humanitarian disaster. On Thursday, Putin claimed victory in the battle for the strategic southern port city of Mariupol, even though an estimated 2,000 Ukrainians remained holed up at the sprawling steelworks, which have bombarded for weeks. Putin ordered his troops not to storm the stronghold but to seal it off. At the same time, Maxar Technologies released new satellite images that it said showed more than 200 graves in a town near Mariupol, and Andryushchenko accused Russia of burying thousands of civilians there. “The graves have been dug up and corpses are still being dumped there,” he said. Initial estimates from the Ukrainians said the apparent mass graves could hold 9,000 bodies, but Andryushenko said there could be more. Meanwhile, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said no humanitarian corridors for civilian evacuations would be open in Ukraine on Friday because it was too dangerous. She urged civilians to “be patient” and “hang in there.” “The Russians refuse to open a corridor for civilians, cynically pretending that they do not understand the difference between a corridor for the military to surrender and a humanitarian corridor to evacuate the civilians,” Vereshchuk said. Days into the Russian offensive to take the east, the campaign has yet to become a full-out assault, with military analysts saying Moscow’s forces are still ramping up. Scattered towns in the east have experienced the thud of incoming shells that drive citizens out in panic.
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