“We may be living our last days, even our last hours“said a Ukrainian officer besieged in Mariupol, calling on the international community to proceed with their “extraction”, in a message posted on Facebook on Wednesday.
“The enemy is ten times more numerous than us“, said Serguiy Volyna, a commander of the 36th brigade of the national navy, entrenched in the vast steel complex of Azovstal in Mariupol (south-eastern Ukraine), besieged by Russian forces. “We call on and beg all world leaders to help us. We ask them to use the extraction procedure and take us to the territory of a third country“, he added. According to Commander Volyna, the Russian army has “advantage in air, artillery, ground forces, equipment and tanks“. “We defend only one point – the Azovstal factory – where in addition to soldiers there are also civilians who have become victims of this war.“, he continued. Russia on Tuesday called on the last defenders of the city of Mariupol to end their “senseless resistance”, promising “life to be saved” to the Ukrainian fighters entrenched in the Azovstal complex if they render.
