On the other hand, Vladimir Putin has canceled the order to attack the Azovstal plant in Mariupol, where there are still some 2,000 Ukrainian defenders, but maintains a blockade.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said today that the country’s armed forces have taken control of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol.
“The armed forces of the Russian Federation and the militias of the Donetsk People’s Republic have liberated Mariupol, the remnants of the nationalist formations have taken refuge in the industrial zone of the Azovstal plant,” Shoigu said in a meeting with the Russian president. Vladimir Putin.
Cancel the order to attack the Azovstal factory
The Russian president has canceled an order to storm the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, where some 2,000 Ukrainian defenders are stationed, to save lives, although he maintains the blockade of the industrial zone.
“I consider the proposed attack on the industrial zone inappropriate. I order it to be cancelled,” the president told Defense Minister Sergei Shoigú during a meeting broadcast on public television Rossía 24.
Source: EITB
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