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Explosions rumbled and smoke rose this week from a steelmaking district in besieged Mariupol where dwindling Ukrainian forces are holed up as Russia tries to take full control of its biggest city yet.

A view shows a plant of Azovstal Iron and Steel Works company behind buildings damaged in the course of Ukraine-Russia conflict in the southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine April 7, 2022.A view shows a plant of Azovstal Iron and Steel Works company behind buildings damaged in the course of Ukraine-Russia conflict in the southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine April 7, 2022.

“That’s why they started talking about trying a chemical attack, that’s the only way to smoke them out,” Zhdanov said. Like the city’s other Illich Steel and Iron Works, Azovstalis held by Metinvest, the group controlled by billionaire Rinat Akhmetov, Ukraine’s richest man.A Russian separatist deputy commander said on Russian state TV on Monday that Moscow had captured 80% of the port, but that resistance continued and that Ukrainian forces had all tried to “exit towards the Azovstal factory”.

“Azov is indeed on Azovstal’s territory … These are huge territories with workshops that can’t be destroyed from the air, which is why the Russians are using heavy bombs,” said Sergiy Zgurets, a military analyst. “The 36th brigade avoided being ripped to pieces and now have serious additional opportunities, essentially getting a second chance,” he said.

“Smoke and fire were observed coming from a number of buildings throughout the western and eastern sections of the city as well as in and near the Azovstal iron and steelworks factory the site of ongoing battles between Russian and Ukrainian forces,” it said.

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