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Yermak: Almost 500 civilians evacuated from besieged Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol.

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“The next stage of rescuing our people from Azovstal is underway at the moment,” Andriy Yermak, head of President Volodymyr Zelensky’s office reported on May 6. Earlier, authorities said that about 1,000 civilians were left at Azovstal, where they were hiding in the steel plant's bunkers, encircled by Russians.

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Pokrovsk, a city that held back some of Russia’s fiercest assaults for over a year, is now on the verge of falling. The Kyiv Independent’s Francis Farrell explains how the battle reached this point and what Pokrovsk’s fall could mean for the wider defense of Donetsk Oblast.

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