The steel mill Azovstal is he last holdout of ukrainian forces against the Russian Army Mariupol, city devastated by bombing, located in the shores of the Sea of Azov. There are no civilians in the factory anymore, but there are more than a thousand Ukrainian soldiers who resist entrenched in the underground galleries of this huge industrial complex in unhealthy conditions. Among them there is hundreds of injured without access to food and medicineaccording to the authorities.
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The Ukrainian deputy prime minister, Iryna Vereschuk, has affirmed that there are serious injuries “who need an urgent evacuation” and the ombudsman, Lyudmyla Denisova, has requested the help of the UN and the Red Cross. “The aggressor does not give the injured any chance to survive,” he wrote on Telegram. “Due to the risk of infections due to the lack of antibiotics, medical instruments and sterile material, doctors are forced to perform amputations even with minor injuries.”
To publicize the dramatic situation of the combatants, andl Azov Battalion has spread through its Telegram channel images of the fighters resisting in Azovstal. The authorities have also reported a new offensive against the steel plant, which was on fire again after the bombing. “If there is a hell on earth, it is there. We are all indebted to the defenders of Mariupol,” said an aide to the mayor, Petro Andriuschenko.