As Ukrainian authorities said that all civilians have been evacuated from the besieged Azovstal steel plant in the eastern portion of the country, holdout militants said Sunday that they will continue to fight.
“All women, children, and elderly people have been evacuated from Azovstal. This part of the Mariupol humanitarian operation has been completed,” Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said Saturday.
A trapped Ukrainian fighter told international media outlets that fighting has continued, describing the situation as a “hellish reality show” as Russia continues to bomb the plant. He called for urgent military assistance.
“It feels like I’ve landed in a hellish reality show in which us soldiers fight for our lives and the whole world watches this interesting episode,” Serhiy Volinski, the commander of the 36th marine infantry brigade, told Al Jazeera. “Pain, suffering, hunger, misery, tears, fears, death. It’s all real,” he added.
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