Horror stories from Mariupol steel factory: ‘Ammunition is really running out’ | Abroad

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Kyiv – Once the pride of the Soviet Union, now the hell on earth and the emblem of the Ukrainian resistance against a Russian force majeure. Since March 30, the enormous Azovstal steel complex of 11 square kilometers in total has been bombed by the Russians and civilians and the soldiers of the Azov Battalion have entrenched themselves in the extensive network of tunnels and air-raid shelters of the Mariupol factory. In the catacombs a bloody battle is fought from man to man. “Until the last man,” said the leader of the Ukrainians, Lieutenant Colonel Denis Prokopenko. The latter could come true.

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