Russian forces pummeled a hulking steel plant that held the last pocket of resistance Sunday in Mariupol, Ukraine.
KYIV, Ukraine -- Russian forces pummeled a hulking steel plant that held the last pocket of resistance Sunday in Mariupol, a southern Ukraine city that has suffered under siege for six weeks and whose capture would aid Moscow's plans for a full-scale offensive in the country's east.
A Russian Defense Ministry spokesman said Saturday that Ukrainian forces had been driven out of most of the city and remained only in the Azovstal steel mill, where tunnels allow the defenders to hide and resist until they run out of ammunition. Malyar said that the Russians have continued to hit Mariupol with airstrikes and appeared to be preparing an amphibious landing to beef up their forces in the city.
"We're not ruling out further strikes on the capital," he said."If you have the opportunity to stay a little bit longer in the cities where it's safer, do it." "All the windows, all the furniture, all destroyed. And the door, too," recounted stunned resident Valentina Ulianova.
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