“More than 1,000” Ukrainian soldiers, including many wounded, remain in Azovstal
“More than a thousand” Ukrainian soldiers, including “hundreds of wounded”, remain at the Azovstal steelworks, besieged by Russian troops in the city of Mariupol, in southeastern Ukraine, the Ukrainian deputy prime minister told AFP on Tuesday. , Iryna Vereshchuk. After the evacuation of all civilians last week with the help of the UN, “more than a thousand” soldiers, including hundreds of wounded” remain entrenched in the underground galleries of this huge industrial complex, Vereshchuk said in a telephone interview. “There are seriously injured who need an urgent evacuation,” added the official.