Two Ukrainian women whose husbands are defending a besieged steel plant in the city of Mariupol are calling for any evacuation of civilians to also include soldiers, saying they fear the troops will be tortured and killed if captured by Russian forces.
. They say the troops stand to be tortured and killed if left behind and captured by Russian forces.
She and Kateryna Prokopenko, whose husband, Denys Prokopenko, is the Azov commander, made their appeal in Rome on Friday for international assistance to evacuate the Azovstal plant, the last stronghold of Ukrainian resistance in the strategic and now bombed-out port city. Speaking in English, Prokopenko, 27, called for a Dunkirk-style mission, a reference to the World War II maritime operation launched to rescue British and Allied troops surrounded by German forces in northern France.
The women said the images were taken sometime in the past week. The AP could not independently verify the date and location of the footage. A military doctor who appears on the video identified herself as an anesthesiologist treating the wounded at the Azovstal plant. She said she was working with a small team of doctors “in extremely hard conditions, under constant bombardment.”
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