Wednesday, March 27

New failed Russian attempt to enter the Azovstal steelworks


Russian troops have again tried unsuccessfully to break into the interior of the Azovstal steelworks, in the southern city of Mariupol, where a group of soldiers remain entrenched, the last redoubt of the Ukrainian resistance in that port city.

“Mariupol. Azovstal. The occupants try to break into the steel mill with covering fire. [Está sucediendo] practically live. The situation becomes more complicated day by dayPetro Andriushchenko, adviser to the mayor of the city, published this Friday on his Telegram account.

The fighters of the Azov Regiment, an ultra-nationalist wing integrated into the local army, suffer, along with other members of the Ukrainian army, the siege by Russian troops for more than 75 daysrecalled the municipal adviser.

There are about 600 seriously wounded soldiers in the bunkers of the Azovstal steelworks besieged by the enemy. The Russians are constantly bombarding the area with all kinds of weapons, including aircraft and naval artillery, repeatedly trying to assault it,” he added.

The municipal advisor, despite the fact that the city is in the hands of the Russians and that they have their own authorities, continues periodically to publish information about the dramatic situation in Mariupol that cannot be contrasted by an independent source.

For her part, the Minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine, Iryna Vereshchuk, declared this Friday that try to launch a special evacuation operation from Azovstalwhich would begin with the rescue of seriously injured army members and would be carried out in several stages.

Earlier, Ukraine had proposed to Russia to exchange severely wounded Azovstal fighters for Russian prisoners according to standard prisoner exchange rules, in a deal that has elicited no response from the Russian side.

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According to Vereshchuk, without such an agreement it is currently impossible to unblock Azovstal by military means.

The defenders of Azovstal they do not want to be taken prisoner and the Russians do not agree with the extraction procedure of the soldiers proposed by Ukraine, he explained.

Attacks continue in the east

On the other hand, Russia is sending additional artillery to its southern border area, in the Bryansk region, which borders northern Ukraine.to expand the bombing of settlements in the Chernigov region, near kyiv.

According to the latest report of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine published this Friday on Facebook, Russian troops have not ceased in recent hours in their attacks against various regions of the country.

These offensive operations are especially virulent in the Operational Zone of Eastern Ukraine, where the Russians continue to try to fully control the pro-Russian regions of Donetsk and Lugansk, in the east of the country, and Kherson, in the south and partially occupied.

With this they try to maintain a land corridor between these regions and the Crimean peninsula, which Moscow annexed in 2014.

At the same time, “the enemy maintains tension in the Transnistria region of the Republic of Moldova and in the Republic of Belarus”assured the Ukrainian General Staff.

As for Kharkiv, which has been heavily bombed in recent days, the Russians have not carried out any offensive operations in recent hours.

Their main efforts, according to the Ukrainian side, were concentrated on preventing the advance of the Ukrainian troops towards the Vesele settlement, in that neighboring region of the pro-Russian Donetsk.

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The Russians also continued to launch air and artillery attacks on the port city of Mariupol on the Sea of ​​Azov.

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This offensive concentrated on trying to blockade the encircled Ukrainian troops at the Azovstal steel plant, which would allow them to establish full control over the city and suppress resistance from the Ukrainian defenders.

A group of soldiers from the so-called Azov regiment is still holding out at the Azovstal steelworks.an ultranationalist wing incorporated into the Ukrainian army after the invasion of Russia, which began on February 24.


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