(Central News Agency, Kyiv, 19th, comprehensive foreign reports) Russian troops have strengthened their control around the port city of Mariupol and have entered the city center. “The siege of Malipo is unsolvable,” said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s staff. At the same time, the Russian army continued to increase its troops and dispatched elite troops.
The Russian side said on the 18th that it is strengthening its control over the area around Malibo City. About 80% of the local houses were damaged, and a theater was shelled on the 16th, and about 1,000 people may still be trapped in the temporary bomb shelter under the theater.
Emergency rescue operations entered their third day today as they search for survivors among the rubble of the theater, but fighting on the streets, Russian artillery fire, and the destruction of Ma Libo’s basic services have compounded the situation.
The Russian Defense Ministry said on the 18th that the Russian army was “tightening the encirclement” around the city of Malibo. The Ukrainian government said that the firepower of the Ukrainian army was at a disadvantage, and the attempt to supply air supplies had also failed.
The Ukrainian army has lost Azovstal, an important steelmaking plant in Malipo, said Vadym Denysenko, an adviser to the Ukrainian Interior Ministry, according to the Associated Press.
“There is a fight for Azovstal. I can say that we have lost this economic lifeline. In fact, one of the largest metallurgical plants in all of Europe has been destroyed,” he said in a televised comment today.
Malibo was besieged by Russian troops, and an estimated 35,000 people have fled.
However, the New York Times reported that Mayor Malipo’s staff, Pyotr Andryuschenko, accused Russian troops of taking thousands of Ukrainians across the border and into Russia against the wishes of them.
He said the citizens of Malibo were taken without passports, and he feared they would be forced to work.
“The difficulty is how to get to cities that are under siege, or are about to be under siege,” emergency coordinator Jakob Kern told AFP.
He described the situation as very critical and the lack of humanitarian access, making it almost impossible to deliver emergency supplies such as food supplies to Malibo, the northeastern cities of Kharkiv and Sumy.
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In addition, Jack Keane, a former deputy chief of staff of the U.S. Army who is currently working at the Institute for the Study of War in Washington, said that the Russian military is constantly redeploying troops from the Eastern Military District.
These forces are currently in Belarus and will begin to enter Ukraine, he said. These troops were also a hodgepodge, but their main goal was to take Kyiv. Among them is the Russian 1st Guards Tank Army, the most elite Russian Guards Tank Army originally stationed in the suburbs of Moscow to defend the Putin regime. (Translator: Dai Yazhen / Verification: Xu Chongzhe) 1110319