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Post by Admin on May 6, 2022 1:20:45 GMT
Ukrainian Forces Fighting 'Bloody Battles’ in Mariupol 4,506 views May 6, 2022 A Ukrainian commander says forces inside the Mariupol steel plant are under attack from the air and ground. Hundreds are believed to still be hiding under the plant, many of them women and children.
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Post by Admin on May 6, 2022 8:49:06 GMT
Operation to rescue civilians from besieged Ukrainian steelworks under way - BBC News 6,783 views May 6, 2022 Officials in Ukraine have said a fresh attempt to evacuate civilians trapped with Ukrainian fighters in a steelworks bombarded by Russian forces is under way.
Buses have been sent to the besieged southern port city of Mariupol, in a rescue operation run jointly by the United Nations and the Red Cross.
There are thought to be about 200 civilians - including at least 20 children - still stuck in bunkers and maze-like tunnels under the Azovstal steel plant.
Russia has been bombing other cities in the Donbas region as the country tries to take more territory in eastern Ukraine.
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Post by Admin on May 6, 2022 14:31:52 GMT
Russia 'intensifies attacks on Azovstal steel plant' in Mariupol 128,282 views May 6, 2022 RUSSIA has reportedly intensified its attacks on the Azovstal steel plant in Ukraine's Black Sea port city of Mariupol.
Footage on Thursday, May 5, shows smokes rising over the steel plant, where hundreds of civilians were stranded for nearly two months. On Wednesday, the Russian Defense Ministry announced a three-day cease-fire for evacuation of civilians from the steel plant.
In a statement, the ministry said an evacuation corridor will be opened in the Azovstal area, in accordance with a decision taken by the Russian administration "based on humanitarian principles."
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Post by Admin on May 6, 2022 19:05:05 GMT
Russia’s progress in eastern and southern Ukraine is being closely monitored as its forces appear to have escalated assaults on those regions.
Having re-focused its attacks away from northern Ukraine and the capital Kyiv, Russian forces are now looking to take full control of the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine in order to create a land bridge from Russia to Crimea, territory it annexed in 2014.
In the latest update from the Ukrainian military, its spokesman said Russian forces “are focusing their efforts on blocking and trying to destroy Ukrainians units in the Azovstal” steelworks where soldiers and civilians have been holed up for up to two months.
“With the support of aircraft, the enemy resumed the offensive in order to take control of the plant,” Ukraine said in its update Thursday morning.
Another 344 civilians were evacuated from the city and suburbs of the southern port city of Mariupol and are on the way to the Ukraine-controlled city of Zaporizhzhia, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his nightly address.
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said the Russians have made uneven progress in the Donbas region, following weeks of resupply and repositioning efforts. Nonetheless, the U.S. and its allies are rushing to send additional security assistance amid an intensified Russian assault in eastern and southern Ukraine.
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Post by Admin on May 7, 2022 6:03:37 GMT
Families of Mariupol’s last defending troops plead for their lives - BBC News 44,492 views May 7, 2022 The United Nations and the International Red Cross are trying to rescue more civilians from the besieged city of Mariupol. But Ukrainian forces have accused Russia of breaching the latest ceasefire. Around 200 civilians are still trapped in a huge steel factory complex, along with city's last Ukrainian defenders. Relatives of those soldiers are pleading for them to also be brought out alive. Our correspondent Laura Bicker, has sent this report from Dnipro.
Sophie Raworth presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Laura Bicker in Dnipro.
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