Ukraine president responds to claim from Russia that it controls most of the port city and says Ukrainian troops remain in a part of it
He said that civilians were in separate locations away from fighters. They were in basements containing 80-100 people each but it was unclear how many civilians there were in total as some buildings had been destroyed and fighters could not reach them because of shelling.
We keep in touch with those civilians who stay in places that we can get to. We know that there are small children there as young as three months old,” he said.It was our makeshift hospital ... Heavy bombs are dropped on the Azovstal steelworks, and now a lot of people are under the rubble ... Azovstal was bombed and destroyed almost completely. We are pulling people from the rubble.”
These people have got through a lot already, through war crimes. They don’t trust Russians, and they are scared.
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