Russia is dropping bunker-buster bombs on a steel plant where Ukrainian civilians are hiding
The plant includes underground tunnels, and Mariupol's city councilProkopenko said Russian troops were aware that civilians were hiding there, and firing anyway:"Russian occupational forces, and their proxy... know about the civilians, and they keep willingly firing on the factory," he said.
Mikhail Vershinin, head of the Donetsk regional patrol police, said on Sunday that children were among the civilians at the plant,The port city of Mariupol has been one of the most-hit parts of Ukraine since Russia's invasion began on February 24.
Some of those remaining in the city are in the steel plant, which may be the last pocket of resistance in the city.Yan Gagin, an advisor to the Russia-backed separatist forces in Donetsk, Russian media outlet Ria Novosti that the steel plant is"basically another city" under Mariupol, and that it was built to withstand bombings.
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