Hundreds of people are hiding in cities to escape bombings in war-torn Ukraine. As Russian forces continue to occupy the city, so too are the reports of their excesses. Mariupol police officer Michael Vershnein said that children and the elderly are dying in the city. The city is destroyed and it has been wiped from the earth map. According to the report, the head of the Donetsk military-civilian administration, Pavlo Kyrilenko, said that thousands of Mariupol residents were starving in occupied Manahushi and Melekin. Russian forces have refused to provide them with food, water and safe passage.
Mariupol city council claimed that Russian troops had forced several thousand people to cross the Russian border. The council said in its statement that the occupiers were being forced to leave Ukraine and move to Russian territory. The occupiers illegally evicted people from the Levoberezhny district and built a shelter in the building of a sports club. These are the people who were hiding to avoid the bombing. The condition of the people in Sheldar is very bad. They are not getting even basic things like food and water.
Struggle to capture huge steel plant
In the southeastern city of Mariupol, the armies of Russia and Ukraine clashed on Saturday to capture the huge steel plant. There are conflicting reports about the capture of the Azov steel plant in Mariupol, one of Ukraine’s major industrial establishments. Vladslav Sobolyevsky, a member of the Azov battalion, told Ukrainian television, the enemy has not reached the city that far. The Ukrainian Navy, the Azov Battalion and the police are guarding the city and its citizens. He said that Azov Steel Plant is under our control. There were air strikes all over the city including the plant, but the enemy could not lay hands on our plant.
According to the report the huge steelworks is located immediately east of the center of Mariupol city. The capture of this institution by Russian security forces would be a major setback for Ukrainian efforts. Meanwhile, adviser to the President of Ukraine, Oleksiy Erestovich, has said that there has been no significant change in the position of the Ukrainian military in the frontline areas in the last 24 hours.