Tag: Mariupol
Mariupol falls to Russian forces as defending troops evacuated – BBC News
The siege of Mariupol is all but over as hundreds of its Ukrainian defenders finally abandoned the steel plant where they had held out for months under relentless bombardment. More than 260 Ukrainian soldiers, some of them seriously wounded, have left the ruins of the Azovstal steel plant and turned themselves over to Russian forces. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukrainian military, intelligence and…
Russia launches all-out assault on Mariupol steelworks, Ukraine says – BBC News
Ukrainian officials have said Russian forces have launched an all-out assault on the Azovstal steelworks, the last Ukrainian holdout in the besieged port city of Mariupol. Ukrainian forces inside the plant have been fighting “difficult bloody battles” for a second day, the commander of the Azov regiment said. Russian forces are reported to have entered “the territory of the plant” after days of sustained attacks….
Ukrainian civilians evacuated from Mariupol steelworks bunker – BBC News
Dozens of civilians have been evacuated from Mariupol to both Russia-controlled and Ukraine-controlled territory after weeks under siege. Some have left the Azovstal steelworks, the last hold-out of Ukrainian troops in the strategically significant city. Russia said dozens of civilians have arrived in a village it controls. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said a large group is also on its way to Zaporizhzhia, which Ukraine maintains…
Ukraine war: ‘Safe passage operation’ starts in Mariupol
More than 100 civilians have been evacuated from the besieged steel plant in the eastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol, after the United Nations and the International Red Cross brokered a deal to extract non-combatants from the site of the most destructive siege of the war in Ukraine. The evacuees will arrive in the Ukrainian-controlled city of Zaporizhzhia on Monday, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy tweeted on Sunday….
Battle for Mariupol: Civilians holed up in Azovstal steel plant
Russia has resumed its attack on the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, according to a Ukrainian official quoted by Reuters. Thousands of Ukrainian soldiers and civilians are holed up in the besieged Azovstal steel plant. The resumption of the Russian attack has come days after President Vladimir Putin ordered his generals not to storm it, Ukraine has said. The mayor’s office in Mariupol says an…
Russia claims to have ‘liberated’ Mariupol | Al Jazeera Newsfeed
US calls Russia’s claim of ‘liberating’ Mariupol ‘disinformation’, while Ukraine president says city of Mariupol ‘continues to resist’. After two months of intense bombardment and fighting, this is what is left of the seaside city.