Ukrainian fighters post a video showing women and children purportedly hiding under a steel plant.
Taking the Sea of Azov port - which has been almost erased by weeks of heavy Russian bombardment - is a key Kremlin war aim, and would release more troops to join an ongoing Russian offensive in the eastern Donbas region.The Azov regiment, which was originally a far-right group that was later incorporated into Ukraine's National Guard, says it shows its fighters delivering food and other aid to women and children in one of the Azovstal underground bunkers.
One of the children, a girl, says she left her house together with her mother and grandmother on 27 February. "I want to get out… to be in safety. I don't want to risk getting out only to be hit by bomb fragments, for example," she adds. The Russian media have portrayed their brutal campaign in Mariupol as a way to "de-Nazify and demilitarise" Ukraine. This video has been released to replace that image with one of fear and desperation in the eyes of children who say they've not seen the sun in one-and-a-half months, asking to be evacuated. This video is an attempt to control the narrative about what is happening on the ground.
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