Russia has decided to blockade the besieged steel industry Azofstal in Mariupol, in southeastern Ukraine, because he could not occupy it, said Oleksy Arestovich, an adviser to the Ukrainian president. Volodymyr Zelensky.
“They can not normally take Azofstal, they have realized this, they have had huge losses there. “Our defenders continue to hold her,” Arestovic told reporters.
This “can also be explained by the fact that they moved part of their forces (from Mariupol) to the north, in order to strengthen the forces that are trying to fulfill their main goal (…) to advance at the administrative borders of its regions. Donetsk and Luhansk, “his adviser added Ukrainian President.
Earlier in the day, Vladimir Putin called the Russian military takeover of Mariupol, a strategically important city in southeastern Ukraine, a “success” and said that Russian forces should continue to besiege the last Ukrainian fighters stationed at the Azov factory. command for a final attack.
The Ukrainian soldiers, who are at the Azovstal steel plant, refuse to surrender, and Azov Battalion Deputy Commander Sviatoslav Palamar calls for “security guarantees” from the “civilized world” to leave through the Telegram app.
Ukrainian President Zhelensky has said they have with them “about 1,000 civilians, women and children” and “hundreds of wounded.”
“I do not think the proposed attack on the industrial zone is appropriate. “I order it to be canceled,” Putin said in a meeting with Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, which aired on Russian television.
“We must think (…) about the lives and health of our soldiers and officers, we must not penetrate these catacombs and crawl underground,” he continued.
“Block this whole zone so that not a fly can pass,” he added. Following the Russian military ultimatums, Putin also called on the Ukrainian warriors to surrender, vowing that “their lives would be saved” and that they would be “treated with dignity.”
Another 2,000 Ukrainian troops are stationed at the large industrial facility, according to Russian Defense Minister Shoigu. He did not mention civilians.
Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Irina Verestsuk has demanded that Russia urgently allow the evacuation of civilians and wounded soldiers from the Azovstal steel corridor through a humanitarian corridor, noting in a statement posted on the Internet that “They all have to leave Azofstal today.”
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