Ukrainian fighters trapped in steel mill refusing to surrender to Russians
Smoke rises from the Metallurgical Combine Azovstal on Thursday in Mariupol, Ukraine. LVIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian fighters battling Russian forces in the tunnels beneath Mariupol’s immense steel plant refused to surrender in the face of relentless attacks, with the wife of one commander saying they had vowed to “stand till the end.”the Russian onslaught
The Ukrainian military’s General Staff said Friday that “the blockade of units of the defense forces in the Azovstal area continues” and that the Russians, with aviation support, had resumed assault operations to take control of the sprawling plant. “There are many wounded , but they are not surrendering,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address. “They are holding their positions.”
Zelenskyy said the attack was preventing evacuation of the remaining civilians, even as U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said another attempt was underway. “We must continue to do all we can to get people out of these hellscapes,” Guterres said. Injured Natalia Rudneva, 59, reacts as her son is hospitalized Thursday after a night shelling in Kramatorsk, Ukraine.
Ukrainian chief of defense, Gen. Valerii Zaluzhnyi, said Thursday that a counteroffensive could begin to push Russian forces away from Kharkiv and Izyum, which has been a key node in Russia’s control of the eastern cauldron. Ukraine in recent days has driven Russian troops some 40 kilometers east of Kharkiv, which has been repeatedly struck by Russian shelling.
. The siege of the city has trapped perhaps 100,000 civilians with little food, water, medicine or heat.
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