Azovstal was shelled all night, Ukraine repelled many attacks

Meanwhile, fighting raged at the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, the last stronghold of Ukrainian forces in the ruined port city in southern Ukraine.

Petro Andriushchenko, an adviser to the Mayor of Mariupol, has just said that the Azovstal factory was shelled all night long and continued until today. “The shelling and attacks went on non-stop, even at night. In some areas, the hostilities went beyond the factory fences.” Mr. Petro Andriushchenko added that the residential areas near the plant had to evacuate themselves without waiting for a warning. “The last eleven square kilometers of freedom in Mariupol have turned into hell.”

Ukrainian soldiers entrenched inside the steel factory yesterday (May 4) said that the army Russia has entered the factory this. However, a Russian official previously denied that Russian soldiers stormed the Azovstal steel plant.

“With the support of aircraft, the enemy has continued to attack to gain control of the Azovstal plant,” the Ukrainian General Staff in Kiev said, adding that Russian forces were trying to take down Ukrainian units.

To the west of Mariupol, the Ukrainian armed forces made some progress on the border of Kherson and Mykolaiv regions, where the Russians are said to have attempted a counterattack. Ukrainian troops repelled 11 Russian attacks in the region Donetsk and Luhansk. Five people were killed and at least 25 injured when eastern Ukrainian cities were shelled in the past 24 hours, Ukrainian officials said.

Ukraine’s armed forces also said that the Russian troops had not achieved any success in their efforts to penetrate the defenses in the east of the country in the past 24 hours. In today’s situation update (May 5), the General Staff of Ukraine said: “The three cities of Lyman, Severodonetsk and Popasna are on the front lines. Russian units tried to attack but failed. “.

Meanwhile, Reuters news agency quoted the Russian Defense Ministry’s announcement as saying that 600 Ukrainian soldiers were killed after Russia launched shelling on a series of positions and strongholds of Ukraine last night. Accordingly, Russian missiles destroyed many aviation equipment at Kanatovo airport in the central Kirovohrad region and a large ammunition depot in the city of Mykolaiv, in the south of Ukraine.

Russia’s RIA news agency quoted the governor of the Belgorod region Vyacheslav Gladkov as saying that the villages of Zhuravlevka and Nekhoteevka had been shelled by Ukraine, but there were no casualties. The shelling continued.

Hoai Linh