Ukraine, Moscow announces the capture of Mariupol: what is happening. PHOTO

The Russian attack continues in eastern Ukraine, where the Moscow army advances from the Donbass area towards Kramatorsk and the Kremlin has announced the conquest of the besieged city of Mariupol. However, strenuous resistance still remains in the steel mill area Azovstalwhile the evacuation of civilians continues unabated

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The announcement that Mariupol is now under Russian control was made by the Russian Defense Minister Shoiguand the Kremlin leader himself Putin welcomed the news by talking about a “success”

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The last line of resistance still stands in the city, with about two thousand Ukrainian soldiers barricaded in the steel plant Azovstalso much so that Shoigu has calculated that it will still take “three to four days” to complete the military operations. But Putin canceled the assault on the areato safeguard the life of the troops, and repeated the promise to spare the lives of the besieged who will surrender

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At the time of the encirclement of Mariupol by Russian troops, in the city they were counted 8,100 between Ukrainian fighters and foreign mercenaries, says Russian Defense Minister Sergej Shoigu. The mayor of the city, Vadim Boychenko, says that: “Our citizens reported that today in Mangush, near Mariupol, Russian soldiers dug a mass grave 30 meters and brought bodies with trucks ”

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“Beyond 4 thousand of the gods about 8 thousand soldiers, including Ukrainian regiments, nationalist battalions and foreign mercenaries present in Mariupol at the time of the Russian encirclement, were eliminated during the liberation of the city; 1,478 have surrendered, “Moscow says

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TO Mariupol almost everything was destroyed, about 95-98% of all buildingsUkrainian President Volodymyr said Zelensky in an interview. “The premises, children, the elderly and the military have been blocked. It is like a terrorist operation by the Russian Federation against Mariupol and the inhabitants of this city. Everything was destroyed there. We are talking to you about schools, kindergartens, common residential neighborhoods, factories, waterfront, this is a seaside town, “he said.

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In the meantime, I am more than 142,000 civilians evacuated. A rescue operation which, as reported by the Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk, continues even though “the security situation is difficult” and “there could be changes”. Instead, the arrival of the “four evacuation buses” that managed to leave the city yesterday along the humanitarian corridor is expected: “They spent the night in Berdyansk and are now headed to Vasylivka. We are waiting for them soon in Zaporizhzhia”

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No civilians used the humanitarian corridors opened by Russia for evacuation from the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol for two days in a row, Russian Defense Minister Sergej Shoigu told President Vladimir Putin today. “Over the past two days, we have followed his orders and declared a truce between 2 and 4 pm, all hostilities have ceased and humanitarian corridors have been opened for the evacuation of civilians who may have been present on the Azovstal ground. No one is out of Azovstal, “Shoigu said

In the rest of the country the Russian offensive continues. According to the British Ministry of Defense, “Russian forces are now advancing from base areas in Donbass towards Kramatorsk“in eastern Ukraine,” which continues to be the subject of persistent rocket attacks. “The governor of the eastern Luhansk region, Serhiy Gaidai, said instead that the Russian forces control 80% of the Oblast territory

The Russian-controlled area has notably increased since the April 18 capture of the city of Kreminna, and much of the region is under the de facto control of the self-proclaimed Lugansk People’s Republic, which unilaterally declared independence from ‘Ukraine on May 12, 2014. Russian troops also raised a large Soviet red flagsymbol of the victory over the Nazis in the Second World War, in Kherson and Kreminna, in view of the celebration of the 9 May of the Victory Day