War in Ukraine, the Azovstal and Mariupol steelworks destroyed by bombs. PHOTO

No respite for the city of Mariupolwhere the steel mill is located Azovstalfor months it has become a refuge for hundreds of Ukrainian civilians and soldiers who have hidden in its basement to escape Russian bombing

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Even the evacuation operations announced also from Moscow and Kiev did not stop the attacks. Both Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres have defined the area of ​​the plant “a hell” (in the photo, a still image of a video released by the Azov battalion showing some bombing on the steel mill)

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“Imagine hell: more than two months of continuous bombing and constant death nearby, ”Zelensky said of the large Mariupol steel plant. The president then reported that not even the Ukrainian authorities are sure of how many occupants actually are who have not yet managed to escape. (in the photo, an image of the bombings broadcast on the Telegram channel of the Ministry of the Interior of the Donetsk People’s Republic)

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It is estimated that they are at least 200 civilians trapped on the premises of the production site which has now become one of the war zones symbolizing the Russian-Ukrainian conflict

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On May 6, Myhailo Vershynin, one of the Ukrainian soldiers who is defending Azovstal, told the Bbc that “after a heavy bombardment I am Two civilians died, with about ten injured” (in the photo, civilians evacuated from the steel mill and headed to Zaporizhzhia)

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Vershynin spoke of one worsening situation: “We have no information on how many civilians were killed because we can’t get out and reach the bunkers they are in”

During what should have been a ceasefire, “Russian troops fired on a car that was transporting civilians to evacuate them from the factory. One soldier was killed and there are six wounded“. The Azov battalion has made it known on Telegram, according to reports from theUkrainska Pravda (in the photo, the photo of the car released by the battalion on its Telegram channel)

“The enemy – said the battalion – continues to violate all agreements and not to comply with the safety guarantees for the evacuation of civilians ” (in the photo, the sign with the words “Save Mariupol” carried by a little girl to a demonstration in Kiev)

Even the United Nations they are working to facilitate the evacuation of civilians from the steel plant. Together with International Committee of the Red Cross they would have helped almost 500 Ukrainians to flee in two operations carried out last week (in the photo, an image of the steel mill released by the Azov battalion)

Zelensky, in video conference with Chatham House in London, a well-known English think-tank, defined the siege of Azovstal “a torture”Carried out with the attempt to“ starve ”Ukrainian soldiers and civilians

The strategy, Zelensky continued, is the result of the “bestial attitude” of the Russian military, fueled by decades of “hatred” and “anti-Ukrainian propaganda“. The conquest of the city of Mariupol and the fall of the steel plant, the British Defense Ministry said in the latest intelligence update, would be linked “to Putin’s desire to have symbolic success in Ukraine” (in photo, Mariupol)

The importance of the conquest of Azovstal and the complete capture of Mariupol, according to the British Defense, would be linked to the Kremlin’s desire to score the first real success of the military campaign in Ukraine by next May 9, for the anniversary of the ” Victory day ”

The victory celebrated on 9 May is that against the Nazi troops of 1945