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[Cyprus Times] Mariupol: "Today we may fight the final battle", says Ukrainian army

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The Ukrainian army announced today that it is preparing for "a last stand" in Mariupol, eastern Ukraine, which has been besieged by the Russian army for more than 40 days.

"Today will probably be the last stand, because our ammunition is running out. () It will mean death for some of us and captivity for others," the 36th brigade of the Ukrainian Navy wrote on Facebook."

"We are dying," the statement added."

"We do not know what will happen, but we truly ask you to remember us with a kind word," the brigade asked "from the Ukrainians."

"We do not know what will happen, but we truly ask you to remember us with a kind word," the brigade asked "from the Ukrainians.

"For more than a month, we fought without ammunition supply, without food, without water", doing "everything possible," this unit also said.

About "half" of the members of this brigade are wounded, according to the statement.

For more than 40 days of fierce fighting, "the enemy has gradually pushed us back (), surrounded us and is now attempting to destroy us," the brigade explains, expressing disappointment at the lack of help "from the army command and the president" Volodymyr Zelensky.

"We received only once 50 shells, 20 mines, NLAW anti-tank missiles," the brigade says. "Nothing else was given to us," it adds, expressing regret about this.

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"There were only unfulfilled promises," it further stresses.

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