Kiev accuses Russia of using a powerful super weapon to destroy the last shelter of Ukrainian forces in Mariupol

According to the Independent, Russian forces are trying to advance, including from Kharkiv. The Russian offensive began on Monday, April 18, and focused on the Donbass region, which includes Ukraine’s Donetsk and Lugansk regions.

Denys Prokopenko, commander of the Azov Regiment of the Ukrainian National Guard based in Mariupol, alleged that Russian planes had begun to deploy bunker-busting bombs to destroy the last Ukrainian fighters who were hiding inside the factory. Azovstal steel.

The vast Azovstal factory, with its intricate network of underground tunnels, is the main refuge of the Mariupol defenses.

Ukrainian units all over Mariupol tried to escape here to the Azovstal factory – what is being considered the last major and strong resistance “fortress” in Mariupol.

At least 1,000 civilians are also holed up in bunkers beneath the vast Azovstal steel plant, which is filled with buildings, blast furnaces and tracks, Ukrainian officials say.

The bunker bomb is designed to penetrate thick reinforced concrete and destroy underground targets.

If Moscow captures Mariupol, it will be in a position to deploy additional forces to combat hotspots in the Donbass. Once it takes the important port city of Ukraine, Russia will have in hand the land link between Russia and the Crimean Peninsula, which Russia annexed in 2014.