“We are defending ourselves, we are fighting back,” said Vershinin, in the face of confusing information about what was happening around a facility with a vast network of underground tunnels and which has been serving as an improvised shelter for civilians for weeks.
Russia, for its part, through the Ministry of Defense, said that “units of the Russian army and the Donetsk People’s Republic, using artillery and aircraft, began to destroy” the “firing positions” of the Ukrainian fighters who left the plant.
The mayor of Mariupol, Vadim Boichenko, assured that there are still 200 civilians trapped in the metallurgical plant. The Ukrainian authorities accused Russia of preventing the transfer of civilians in the area despite the opening of a humanitarian corridor.
Around 100,000 people would remain in all of Mariúpol, with hardly any basic services due to the siege exerted by Russian forces. Moscow aspires to complete its conquest with a view to establishing a corridor between the Donbas region and the Crimean peninsula.
Source: Ambito
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