The Russian forces entered Friday in this port city of the southern Ukraine who has been the subject of more than two weeks of systematic bombing. The balance sheet hitherto estimated at 2,500 people would be well superior according to people who managed to flee.
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The Russian army entered Friday, March 18th in the city of Maroupol, where at least 300,000 people are besieged for eighteen days. Street fights take place near the city center, while 50 to 100 bombs are dropped daily on residential neighborhoods, as well as hundreds of shells and rockets.
Russian bombing have completely destroyed the East Neighborhood (Left Bank). The defense of maroupol undergoes an assault on three axes. The one from the east penetrated the left bank and comes up against Azovstal, an immense steel plant used as a camp entrenched by the Ukrainian forces. Friday, air strikes are likely destroyed beyond the repairable this jewel of the Ukrainian economy.
Another offensive from the northeast Bute on Ilitcha, another metallurgical factory similarly occupied by the Ukrainian army. The third attack comes from the west and entered the city by Port City, a vast shopping center today completely destroyed by the fighting. The latter breakthrough penetrated to the “Place de la Freedom”, at the edge of the city center. One kilometer and a half further are the ruins of the dramatic theater, on which Russian planes dropped Thursday evening two bombs that have completely destroyed it. Under the rubble is an airborne anti-bombardment shelter in which a thousand people were refugees. The shelter would have resisted, but we only know that 130 people have been unobstructed. According to the Maroupolitan information website 0629.COM.ua , Rescue operations are very difficult because rescuers are shots target coming from Russian positions. The Ukrainian army would still control a portion of the city center and the residential district “Primorskoie” on the shore of the Black Sea.
For Roman Ameliakin, a member of the municipal council who managed to flee Maroupol, on March 16, “the defenses of the city were very strong side is, because they were dug during the eight years of the conflict. On the West flank On the other hand, the protection of the city was less strong and this is where the Russian offensive coming from Crimea is first entry into the city. The other problem is that the main axes of Maroupol N ‘ have not been barred by obstacles to facilitate defense, as was done in other cities of Ukraine “.
” An arbitration has been done “
Maroupol is defended by the Marine Infantry, the Azov Battalion, special forces, border guards, and the Territorial Defense. “The soldiers say they can resist a very long time inside the walls of the two city plants. The fortifications are very strong, there are bunkers. The strengths and resources are there,” says Roman Ameliakin.
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