According to the latest information, the Russian Defense Ministry on April 16 issued an ultimatum to Ukrainian forces entrenched in this metallurgical plant, asking them to lay down their weapons on April 17 to be preserved. life.
Smoke and fire on the battlefield of Mariupol (Ukraine). Photo: AP.
Why did a smelter become such a significant obstacle for the Russian military after weeks of their assault on the coastal city?
Recently, a representative of the self-proclaimed separatist republic in the Donbass region (Ukraine) – Yan Gagin, revealed that the operation to capture Azovstal will be difficult because this Soviet-era factory has a similar huge scale. like a city.
According to Gagin, the factory had its own communications system, its own roads, and a “matrix” of interlocking tunnels.
The facility was built during the Soviet era, and that construction took into account bombing and blockade situations. Some of the structures inside were even designed to withstand an entire war, the official Gagin said. nuclear attack”.
A representative of the Donbass militia said that the Azovstal factory currently has a large number of very strong armed defenders, so the effort to capture this factory will be slow and need to be conducted methodically to reduce casualties. death to the attacker.
Moreover, the Azovstal factory is located in the strategically important port city of Mariupol on the shores of the Sea of Azov, so it is understandable that the Kiev authorities ordered death here and made the Russian war more difficult.
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