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Russian forces were on Wednesday pounding a huge steel works in Mariupol where the southern Ukrainian city's last defenders and some civilians are holed up, a local official said.
Earlier, the Russian defence ministry said 1,908 Ukrainian soldiers from Azovstal had "rendered themselves prisoner" since Monday.
Humanitarian efforts, lead by the United Nations and Red Cross, had been stepped up over the last week to evacuate the last civilians trapped in the sprawling Soviet-era steel works.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to rescue the injured at the Azovstal steelworks plant in Mariupol, which was besieged by Russian forces.
People fleeing besieged Mariupol described weeks of bombardments and deprivation as they arrived Monday in Ukrainian-held territory, where officials and relief workers anxiously awaited the first group of civilians freed from a steel plant that is the last redoubt of Ukrainian fighters in the devastated port city. FRANCE 24's Nadia Massih reports from Kyiv, Ukraine.
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