The Ukrainian military leadership has downgraded expectations that an operation will be launched to rescue soldiers and civilians trapped in its Azovstal plant. Mariupolsurrounded by Russian troops.
Anyone “Such an operation would require a large number of soldiers, because the Ukrainian forces are at a distance of 150 to 200 kilometers”said yesterday Wednesday (11/5) the Deputy Chief of General Staff, Olexi Chromoffnoting that it would have a high cost in losses, as the Russian army has installed strong defenses in Mariupol.
The port of strategic importance in the Sea of Azov, in southeastern Ukraine, has been under Russian siege for more than two months.
According to the Deputy Prime Minister Of Ukraine, Irina Verestsuk, about 1,000 Ukrainian servicemen, about half of whom are wounded, are still at Azovstal. Russian imgs say 2,500 Ukrainian fighters and foreign mercenaries in the huge factory.
However, the commander of the Ukrainian forces in Azovstal, the Serhiy Volnaaddressed the billionaire businessman via Twitter Elon Musk asking him for help to free them.
Meanwhile, bombings in areas of Donbas and Donetsk in eastern Ukraine continue. The governor of the Donetsk region, Pavlo Kirilenkosaid in a message on the Telegram platform that Russian forces attacked “Virtually all communities in the region”. Kirilenko stressed that the strikes were not only against military targets, but also against residential areas. In addition, Ukrainian media reported that 18 rocket attacks were recorded in the greater Zaporizhia region.
The general staff of the Ukrainian army, however, had not only negative news. He announced that the city had been liberated from Russian occupation Pitomnik located in its wider area Kharkov. The city is located near the border with Russia. “We mark victories in the direction of Kharkov where we liberate cities with thousands of inhabitants”underlined Chromoff.
Source: News Beast
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