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Ukraine hopes to evacuate civilians from Mariupol steel works where fighters are holding out

Ukraine hopes on Friday to evacuate civilians who are holed up with Ukrainian fighters in the vast Azovstal steel plant in the southern city of Mariupol.

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Ukrainians 'huddle in rubble as steel works hospital blasted by Russian bomb'

A video believed to be from inside the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol shows people huddling in darkness and covered in rubble after the makeshift hospital was blasted by a Russian bomb

Daily Mirror

VIDEO: Terrified Civilians Trapped As 35 Missile Strikes Hit Mariupol Shelter

The footage was filmed at the Azovstal iron and steelworks plant in the city of Mariupol.

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Boris Johnson says he doesn’t expect Putin to resort to nuclear weapons if Russia suffers more Ukraine losses

Asked if he expected Mr Putin to consider using tactical nuclear weapons if he suffered more military failures in Ukraine, the PM said: ‘No, I don’t’

Evening Standard

Putin agrees to U.N., ICRC help to evacuate civilians from Azovstal plant - U.N.

Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed "in principle" to U.N. and International Committee for the Red Cross involvement in the evacuation of civilians from the Azovstal plant in Ukraine's Mariupol, the United Nations said in a statement on Tuesday.

Reuters

Ukraine's military says Russian forces are trying to storm Azovstal plant

Russian forces attempted to storm the Ukrainian-held Azovstal steel plant in the besieged southeastern city of Mariupol on Sunday, Ukrainian officials said, despite Russian President Vladimir Putin's comments last week that the complex did not need to be taken.

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'I want to see the sun' begs child in Mariupol steel works

Women and children sheltering in a giant steel works in Mariupol that is the last holdout of Ukrainian defenders of the southern port city, said in a video released on Saturday they are desperate to get out and are running out of food.

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Inside the Azovstal steelworks exists Mariupol's last pocket of resistance against Russia

The sprawling Azovstal steelworks has become the last pocket of Ukrainian resistance in the southern port city of Mariupol. Kateryna Kitrish used to work there.

ABC News

Russia Says Ukrainian Fighters ‘Securely Blockaded’ at Mariupol Steel Plant

Russia's defense ministry said on Friday that Ukrainian fighters and foreign mercenaries had been "securely blockaded" at the Azovstal steel plant where they have been holding out in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol. President Vladimir Putin had ordered his defense minister on Thursday to block off the vast Azovstal complex…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Russia says Ukrainian fighters 'securely blockaded' at Mariupol steel plant

Russia's defence ministry said on Friday that Ukrainian fighters and foreign mercenaries had been "securely blockaded" at the Azovstal steel plant where they have been holding out in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol.

Reuters

Fears for hundreds of civilians trapped in Mariupol steel plant

Up to 1,000 people could be holed up in Azovstal factory with group of outgunned Ukrainian fighters

The Guardian - UK

Britain says Russia blockaded Azovstal plant to contain Ukraine resistance

Russian President Vladimir Putin's decision to blockade the Azovstal steel plant in Ukraine likely indicates a desire to contain resistance in Mariupol, a British military update said on Friday.

Reuters

Mariupol now: The shape of things to come in Ukraine?

Russia has claimed control of the eastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol, but President Volodymyr Zelensky says as many as 120,000 civilians remain trapped there, including hundreds in bunkers below the Azovstal steelworks. Is this the shape of things to come in other cities in the Donbas region now targeted by…

France 24

Russian forces accused of secret burials of Mariupol civilians in mass graves

Mayor says corpses thrown into mass grave which appears to be visible on newly released satellite images

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Ukraine's military says Russia has attempted to storm Mariupol's port and Azovstal plant

Ukraine's military said on Wednesday that Russian forces have made attempts to storm the seaport and Azovstal steel plant in the southeastern Ukrainian port city of Mariupol.

The Guardian - UK

‘They’ve gone through hell’: fears for British prisoners of war in Ukraine

Exclusive: friend of Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner says UK minister’s claim they were in Ukraine illegally is ‘completely false’

Reuters

Ukraine president's adviser says Russia realised it could not take Mariupol's Azovstal

Russia decided to blockade the besieged Azovstal steel plant in the city of Mariupol because it cannot take it by force, Oleksiy Arestovych, Ukraine's presidential adviser said on Thursday.

Reuters

Ukraine and Russia: What you need to know right now

Ukrainian fighters were clinging to their last redoubt in Mariupol after Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed victory in the biggest battle of the war, declaring the port city "liberated" following weeks of relentless bombardment.

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Ukraine deputy PM demands Russia let civilians and wounded soldiers leave Azovstal

Ukraine's deputy prime minister Iryna Vereshchuk on Thursday demanded Russia urgently allow the evacuation of civilians and wounded soldiers from the besieged Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol via a humanitarian corridor.

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Russian media say 120 civilians left besieged steel plant in Mariupol

About 120 civilians living next to the Azovstal steel works in the besieged Ukrainian port of Mariupol have left via humanitarian corridors, the Interfax news agency reported on Tuesday, quoting Russian state TV.

Reuters

Russia tells Ukrainian forces to surrender Azovstal plant by noon

Russia on Tuesday called on Ukrainian forces and foreign fighters holed up in the Azovstal metallurgical plant in the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol to lay down their arms by noon Moscow time (0900 GMT) if they wanted to live.

Reuters

At least 1,000 civilians hiding under Ukrainian stronghold steel plant in Mariupol- city council

No fewer than 1,000 civilians are hiding in underground shelters beneath the vast Azovstal steel plant in the southeastern Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, the city council said on Monday, adding that Russia was dropping heavy bombs onto the Ukrianian-held factory in the besieged city.

Reuters

'Fortress in a city': Ukrainians cling on at steel plant in Mariupol

Explosions rumbled and smoke rose this week from a steel making district in besieged Mariupol where dwindling Ukrainian forces are holed up as Russia tries to take full control of its biggest city yet.

The Guardian - UK

Did Russia really use chemical weapons in Ukraine? Experts are sceptical

Analysis: Little evidence thus far that civilians in Mariupol had fallen ill because of chemical attack

The Independent UK

Live updates: Big steel plant 'being destroyed' in Mariupol

In the besieged port city of Mariupol, Ukrainian and Russian forces are fighting for the Azovstal steel plant, one of the biggest in Europe, said Vadym Denysenko, an adviser to Ukraine’s interior minister, in televised remarks on Saturday

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