Drone footage has shown the continued Russian assault on the besieged Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol. Ukrainian fighters are holed up in the plant and refusing to surrender. Read more here:
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A few hundred civilians are also thought to be trapped, although Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said more than 150 people from the plant and more than 300 people from the suburbs had been evacuated this week.The ground assault on the steelworks continued for a second day on Thursday, the MoD said in its latest update.
Russia recently launched a new push to take the eastern Donbas region after pulling out of areas around the capital Kyiv.Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video playerSpeaking in the early hours of Friday, President Zelenskyy said Russia was continuing to hammer the steelworks despite the presence of civilians, who are trapped in awful conditions.
• Belarus's president, whose country was used as a launch pad for the invasion, says Russia was right to invade but he didn't expect the conflict to"drag on this way"
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