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Mariupol, a strategic port in southern Ukraine, has been under siege for more than 40 days. The population lives in anguish of an imminent and massive attack by Russian troops. Tuesday, April 12, the last pockets of Ukrainian resistance are increasingly fragile.
Kremlin soldiers advance in Mariupol (Ukraine), Tuesday, April 12, but face Ukrainian resistance. On images from Russian television, they invest the industrial complex of the city, where one of the last pockets of the Ukrainian resistance tries to defend its territory. On April 7, the site was pounded by Russian strikes. On social networks, the Ukrainian fighters say they have no more ammunition, and fear to fight their last battle.
Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine, raised the possibility of a chemical attack on Mariupol. “We take this very seriously”, did he declare. On images broadcast on pro-Russian social networks, tanks flanked by the letter “Z” are deployed on the port. In the city destroyed at 90%, the inhabitants are terrified. “We thought the worst thing was an aerial bomb, but in fact the most terrifying thing is the tanks”says one of them, Yevheniya.