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According to Kremlin-controlled RIA Novosti media outlet, Russia and its proxies are set to demolish the Azovstal steel mill. The plant was the last Ukrainian stronghold of Mariupol, a city with a pre-war population of 450,000 people, destroyed by Russian troops.

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