Kiev said today that it is trying to break the siege of Mariupol by Russian forces and that fighting is raging around the Illich Steel and Iron Works facility and in the port area.
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[/P]"The situation in Mariupol is difficult and harsh. Battles are raging right now. The Russian military is constantly calling for additional units to enter the city," Ukrainian Defense Ministry spokesman Oleksandr Motuzyanik said."
"But so far the Russians have not been able to fully understand it," he said in a televised briefing.[/P]Motuzyanik noted that Russia used long-range bombers to attack Mariupol for the first time since its invasion on February 24 and that Russian forces are focusing their operations on capturing the towns of Rubeznoye, Popasna in eastern Ukraine.
He also described the loss of the Russian cruiser Moskva, which sank last night, as significant. However, he said he was not authorized to give information about a factory near the capital Kiev that the Russian Defense Ministry claimed it hit with missiles overnight.
Moscow
announced today that it had taken full control of the Illich Steel and Iron Works facility in Mariupol and warned of more strikes on targets in Kiev.
They are bombarding Mariupol with their ferocious Tupolevs
The battle in Ukraine's southern and eastern provinces is now entering another phase. The Russian military command seems to have "green-lighted" the final stage of the offensive in both Donetsk and Lugansk, but especially in Mariupol, which is in danger of being literally wiped off the map.
According to reports, the Russians "lifted" the ferocious Tu-95/-160 bombers, ruthlessly bombing the city of Mariupol and leveling everything in their path. Operations are now conducted without exceptions, as Russian troops do not separate residential areas and military installations.
As reported by the spokesman for the Ukrainian military command, Alexander Motuzyanik, on Thursday 14 April, two large Russian Tu-95/-160 bombers took off from Krasnodar and headed for Mariupol, where they bombed it." "It is also the first time that modern Tu-22M3 fighters were used, hitting targets with missiles, also in Mariupol," he added."
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