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War in Ukraine: Azovstal bailout talks under way, Zelensky reveals

Its president Of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyin his night sermon claimed that the negotiations with Russia to rescue the wounded warriors trapped in its steel plant Mariupol, Azovstal, are very difficult. He added that Kyiv uses mediators with great influence.

“Russian forces are constantly bombing the steel plant in the port of Mariupol, the last stronghold of hundreds of Ukrainian defenders in a city that is now almost entirely under Russian control. “The siege has lasted more than two months,” said the Ukrainian leader.

“At the moment,” Zelensky added “Complicated negotiations are underway on the second phase of the rescue mission – the removal of the seriously injured doctors. We are talking about a large number of people “.

Ukraine, believing that there is no military solution to the situation, has proposed rescuing 38 of the heavily wounded warriors. If Moscow allows the evacuation mission to take place, then Kyiv will release a number of Russian prisoners of war.

“Of course we do everything to save everyone else, each of our defenders. We have already involved everyone from all over the world, those who could be the most important mediators with the greatest influence “, he stressed without, however, revealing the identity of those who are trying to provide a solution.

In addition, he stressed that Russian forces have almost lost 27,000 soldiers in the Ukraine war. He said that the Ukrainians shot down on Friday (13/5) the 200th Russian aircraft since the beginning of the invasion, while about 3,000 vehicles have been destroyed, including many tanks.

He also supported “we do not really know how long this war will lastbut it will have no other end than the defeat of Russia and they know that. So why are they doing all this to keep a statue of Lenin standing in Ukraine for a while longer? In the meantime, we are doing everything we can to liberate our territories. This is our priority. To shorten the duration of the war. “Unfortunately, this does not depend on us alone.”

He called on Western politicians to think about it problems that a potential food crisis would cause and how much more money would be needed to resolve these as opposed to now helping Ukraine to defeat Russia as soon as possible.

Source: News Beast

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