Mariupol’s last defenders face what could be the longest weekend of their lives as Russian forces try at all costs to capture the steel plant
Ukrainian officials claimed on Friday to have rescued hundreds more civilians who had been trapped in a besieged steel plant in the battered city of Mariupol.
Mariupol’s last defenders face what could be the longest weekend of their lives as Russian forces—desperate to deliver something for Vladimir Putin to celebrate in Monday’s Victory Day celebrations—try at all costs to capture the plant. The closest the Russians have come to victory is in Mariupol, the strategic port city on the Azov Sea that was among the invaders’ first target.
“It will be a grotesque crowd scene for another propaganda image,” said Pyotr Andryuschenko, an aide to the Mariupol mayor.
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