Ukraine says Mariupol is not fully controlled by Russia

KIEV – Ukraine said on Friday (15/4/2022), that they are trying to break the siege of troops Russia from Mariupol. There were also reports of fighting raging around the steel mill and port of Illich, as the capital Kiev was rocked by some of the most powerful explosions in two weeks.

Mariupol, on the Sea of ​​Azov, has witnessed the worst battles of the war. Home to 400,000 people before the Russian invasion, the city has been reduced to rubble in seven weeks of siege and bombardment. Thousands of civilians have died and tens of thousands are still trapped in the city.

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“The situation in Mariupol is difficult and difficult. The fighting is going on right now. The Russian army is constantly calling in additional units to storm the city,” said Ukrainian Defense Ministry spokesman Oleksandr Motuzyanyk.

“But until now, Russia has not managed to completely control it,” he continued in a televised briefing.

Motuzyanyk also said that Russia had used long-range bombers to attack Mariupol for the first time since the February 24 invasion. It is also reported that elsewhere Russian forces are concentrating efforts on capturing the eastern Ukrainian cities of Rubizhne and Popasna.

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Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, Iryna Vereshchuk said that 2,864 people had been evacuated from conflict areas on Friday, including 363 people from Mariupol who used their own transport.

On the Russian side, Moscow says it has struck at what it says is a factory in Kiev that manufactures and repairs anti-ship missiles. This attack was in apparent retaliation for the sinking of the Moskva, the main ship of the Moscow Black Sea Fleet, on Thursday.

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