According to the Russian-backed separatist commander of Ukraine’s breakaway province of Donetsk, a ship has left the Ukrainian port of Mariupol for the first time since Russia annexed the city and is heading east to Russia with a cargo of metal. Ukraine stated that the shipment of metal to Russia from Mariupol, whose capture provided … Read more
The Russian defense ministry just claimed that civil vessels can now securely utilize the Azov Sea port of Mariupol in Ukraine. Now that the threat of mines has been removed. In the Azov Sea, a maritime humanitarian corridor was inaugurated on Wednesday. It comes after more than 2,400 Ukrainian fighters surrendered at the besieged Azovstal … Read more
Kyiv has ordered the last Ukrainian forces trapped in Mariupol’s besieged Azovstal steelworks to cease fighting, according to a commander of a battalion heading the trapped units. “The higher military command has given the order to save the lives of the soldiers of our garrison and to stop defending the city,” Denys Prokopenko stated in … Read more
According to the Russian defense ministry, Ukrainian fighters who surrendered at the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol were brought to a hospital in Novoazovsk, in the breakaway Donetsk republic. Since Monday, about 1,000 Ukrainian fighters who locked themselves in tunnels on the location have surrendered to Russian and pro-Russian forces. Officials in Ukraine have blocked all … Read more
More Ukrainian soldiers have been evacuated from the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol today. After a convoy of at least seven buses was sighted departing the city earlier. According to a witness, the truck has arrived at a former penal colony in the Russian-controlled town of Olenivka near Donetsk. The arrivals have not been officially confirmed … Read more
Kyiv said more than 1,000 Ukrainian forces remained at the massive Azovstal steelworks in the Russian-controlled coastal city of Mariupol on Tuesday. Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk told AFP that “more than a thousand” Ukrainian military remain in the plant. “Hundreds are injured. There are people with serious injuries who require urgent evacuation. The situation … Read more
On Tuesday, dozens of evacuees from the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol arrived safely in Ukrainian-controlled Zaporizhzhia. When James Elder of the UN children’s charity UNICEF, visited evacuees who had been taken by bus, he saw a “whole range of emotions.” He told that one mother was “amazed” that she and her two young grandkids had … Read more
A group of 20 civilians is leaving the Azovstal steelworks, wherein the final Ukrainian troops are holed up inside the Black Sea port of Mariupol, the squaddies there stated Saturday. “Twenty civilians, women and children… have been transferred to a suitable place and we hope that they will be evacuated to Zaporizhzhia, on territory controlled … Read more
Ukrainian troops are defending the Azovstal steel and iron works in Mariupol, which are now almost entirely occupied by Russian forces. Militaries, marines, and medics are believed to be in bomb shelters beneath the industrial complex. Initially, a bloody battle was expected, with Russian units attempting to locate the remaining Ukrainian forces in the tunnels … Read more
