The Government of Ukraine demanded the opening of a humanitarian corridor from the Azovstal steel plant in the coastal city of Mariupol to evacuate the 1,000 civilians and 500 soldiers who endure the siege of the Russians.
“We demand from the Russians an urgent humanitarian corridor from the Mariupol Azovstal plant!” , the deputy prime minister of Ukraine, Iryna Vereshchuk, said on her Telegram account.
According to the government official, “there are now about 1,000 civilians and 500 soldiers injured. “Everyone must be removed from Azovstal today!” , he reiterated.
He also called on “world leaders and the international community to focus their efforts on Azovstal now. Now this is a key point and a key moment for the humanitarian effort!” , Vereshchuk emphasized.
This Wednesday, Sergiy Volyna - one of those responsible for the resistance in the steel mill - had asked for international help to ensure the departure of the site in a dramatic video:
The Azovstal steel plant is, according to the Russians, the only enclave in Mariupol that resists its attacks. Ukrainian civilians and soldiers are still sheltering in its tunnels and facilities in subhuman conditions.
The rest of the city, on the shores of the Sea of Azov, has been practically destroyed by Russian bombardments since the start of the invasion of the country on 24 February.
Russia's Defense Minister Sergey Shoigou said on Thursday that the country's armed forces have taken control of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, although he admitted that there is a resistance exchange left in the Azovstal steel mill.
For his part, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that his troops “successfully” took control of Mariupol, and ordered the last fighters entrenched in the Azovstal industrial plant to be besieged, without carrying out an assault.
“The end of Mariupol's liberation work is a success,” Putin told Shoigu, after telling him that an assault on the Azovstal factory “was not appropriate” and that “the area had to be besieged in such a way that not a fly would pass.”
(With information from EFE)
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