Russia-Ukraine live updates: Putin says troops won’t storm Mariupol steel plant but will block exits as Ukraine demands safe evacuation for everyone trapped
As the world watches the last defenders of the key port city of Mariupol hold out against an advancing and larger Russian force, and with women and children trapped inside a steel plant, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Wednesday that Ukraine is ready to exchange Russian military prisoners for Ukrainian civilians.
Zelensky said the situation is increasingly dire in Mariupol, where troops are defending wounded soldiers and about 1,000 civilians, including women and children, sheltered inside the sprawling Azovstal iron and steel plant.that said Kyiv had “showed an inhuman attitude towards Ukrainian servicemen and failed to give them the only correct order — to stop pointless resistance and lay down arms.
Zelensky offered two possible scenarios that would lead to the “unblocking” of Mariupol, which has been subjected to relentless bombardment for weeks, causing widespread devastation and thousands of civilian casualties.
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