Logistical supplies are dwindling, Ukrainian fighters are struggling to defend Azovstal steel mill and Russians want to control the last pocket of Mariupol before Victory Day as the conflict enters 74th day Follow our live coverage:👇
A service member of pro-Russian troops is seen atop of an armoured vehicle during Ukraine-Russia conflict in the village of Bezimenne in the Donetsk region, Ukraine May 7, 2022. With supplies running low, amputations conducted in a ramshackle clinic, and corpses piling up, the fighters trapped at the besieged steel plant in Ukraine's Mariupol are battling to hold on as Russian forces tighten their grip on the city's last redoubt.
"Lots of soldiers are in serious condition in the hospital. They are injured with no medicine. Food and water are running out," said Tytarenko, who remains in regular contact with people inside the Azovstal plant.Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of Russia's republic of Chechnya, said his soldiers have taken control of most of the eastern Ukrainian city of Popasna, while Ukrainian officials said a battle for the town in the east of the country is ongoing.
"Fighters of the Chechen special forces ... have taken most of Popasna under control," Kadyrov, who has often described himself as Russian President Vladimir Putin's "foot soldier", wrote in a post on the Telegram messaging app. "The main streets and central districts of the town have been completely cleared.
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