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Zelensky: Pilots risk their lives to deliver supplies to Azovstal.

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Ukrainian pilots braved Russian anti-aircraft fire to bring humanitarian supplies to and retrieve the dead and wounded from Azovstal steel plant, President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a televised address on May 20. “A very large number of our pilots died, unfortunately. Absolutely heroic people… Just imagine what these people have done,” Zelensky said.

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