- 24 April, 2024
Geopolitics & National SecurityAzovstal
Relatives of fighters in Ukraine steel plant plead for help, Kyiv working on rescue
(Reuters) -Relatives and supporters of Ukrainian fighters in the Azovstal steel plant on Thursday called for fresh efforts to save them as Kyiv said new talks were underway with Moscow…
Mariupol authorities say Russia violates ceasefire during evacuation operation
KYIV (Reuters) - Local authorities in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol accused Russian forces on Friday of opening fire on a car on its way to evacuate civilians from a…
Britain says Russia continued ground assault on Azovstal steel plant for second day
(Reuters) - Russian forces in Ukraine's Mariupol continued their ground assault on the Azovstal steel plant for a second day, British military intelligence said in a tweet on Friday. Ukrainian…
Russia resumed shelling of steel works after evacuation buses left – mayor’s aide
KYIV (Reuters) - Russia resumed shelling of the Azovstal steel works in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol on Sunday as soon as buses evacuating civilians from the plant had left, an…
Russian forces pummel Ukrainian fighters holed up in Mariupol steel plant – mayoral aide
(Reuters) - Russian forces were on Wednesday pounding a huge steel works in Mariupol where the southern Ukrainian city's last defenders and some civilians are holed up, a local official…
Russia says it will halt hostilities to let civilians leave besieged steel plant on Monday
(Reuters) - Russia's defence ministry said its troops would halt hostilities to allow civilians to leave the besieged steel plant Azovstal in Ukraine's port city of Mariupol from 1400 Moscow…
Ukraine’s Zelenskiy says 120,000 civilians blocked from leaving Mariupol
(Reuters) - Around 120,000 civilians are blocked from leaving the besieged city of Mariupol, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday. Responding to remarks by Russia's defense minister Sergei Shoigu…
Ukraine deputy PM demands Russia let civilians and wounded soldiers leave Azovstal
(Reuters) - Ukraine's deputy prime minister Iryna Vereshchuk on Thursday demanded Russia urgently allow the evacuation of civilians and wounded soldiers from the besieged Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol via…
Russia tells Ukrainian forces to surrender Azovstal plant by noon
(Reuters) - Russia on Tuesday called on Ukrainian forces and foreign fighters holed up in the Azovstal metallurgical plant in the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol to lay down their…
