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At 56th day of the war in Ukraine, Wednesday, April 20, the city of Mariupol still resists, but for how long? The Russians continue to shell to seize this strategic port on the sea ofAzovand fighting is intensifying in the east of the country.
The industrial complex Azovstal is the last pocket of Ukrainian resistance to the Russian army in Mariupol (Ukraine)Wednesday, April 20. It has been the scene of intense fighting for weeks. Ukrainian soldiers of the battalion Azov are there. Besieged, surrounded, they launched an appeal to the international community on the night of Tuesday April 19 to Wednesday April 20. “We may be living our last days, even our last hours. (…) We beg you to bring us to safety on the territory of a third State“, said a Ukrainian naval officer.
On the morning of April 20, an agreement was reached with Russia on the establishment of a humanitarian corridor to another city further west. It only concerns civilians. On the front Estthe Ukrainian army does not intend to surrender. In the region of Luhansk (Ukraine)the fighting continues. To a few kilometers away, Kramatorsk (Ukraine) was not spared. Entire neighborhoods were devastated.