🔴Russian and Ukrainian forces are engaged in heavy fighting at the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, the city’s mayor has warned.
“We’ll do everything that’s possible to repel the assault, but we’re calling for urgent measures to evacuate the civilians that remain inside the plant and to bring them out safely,” Sviatoslav Palamar, deputy commander of Ukraine’s Azov Regiment, said in an online post.Although more than 100 people were evacuated from the Azovstal plant to the nearby city of Zaporizhzhia over the last few days, Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky accused the Kremlin of violating evacuation agreements.
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