Hundreds of Ukrainian militants and civilians are still trapped in the Mariupol Steel Plant. There has been a struggle for days to evacuate them. A new attempt could be made today.
According to media reports, the evacuation of civilians from the besieged Azovstal steelworks in the completely destroyed Ukrainian port of Mariupol is planned for today.
An “operation” is planned to rescue the trapped people, the Ukrainian newspaper “Ukrajinska Pravda” reported, citing a source in the presidential office. A first attempt at evacuation on Thursday failed because Russian troops fired on a military hospital on the factory premises. There was initially no official confirmation of the report.
The mayor of Mariupol, Vadym Boychenko, expressed the hope that in the ongoing “negotiation procedures” an agreement on the evacuation of civilians from Mariupol could be reached. According to the Ukrainian agency Unian, Boychenko said there was almost no food, water or medicine left in the besieged steel mill. “It’s no longer a question of days, but of hours.”
Fighters and civilians entrenched in the steel mill
Mariupol on the Sea of Azov was besieged by Russian troops shortly after the start of the war at the end of February and later largely taken. In addition to the civilians, several hundred Ukrainian fighters are said to have holed up in the steel works of the strategically important city. Russia had recently rejected an escape corridor for all those trapped. The civilians are allowed to go, the Kremlin said. The military, however, are not granted a free deduction.
Source: Stern
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