Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine Iryna Vereshchuk told AFP in an interview that more than a thousand Ukrainian servicemen are in Azovstal's warehouses in Mariupol. Hundreds of wounded are among them.
“Hundreds are wounded. There are people with serious injuries who need urgent evacuation. The situation is getting worse every day, “Vereshchuk told AFP.
She said there had been numerous attempts to evacuate people with the help of the United Nations.
, more than 300 women and children were rescued from the plant. Instead, the military said it could not guarantee that all civilians had left the underground complex with its maze of underground bunkers and tunnels.
The head of the Donetsk regional state administration Pavlo Kyrylenko said on Tuesday that even after the evacuation in “Azovstal” there were “more than a hundred civilians”. At the same time, Russian strikes on the metallurgical plant do not subside.
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