- Title: Smoke rises above encircled Azovstal plant
- Date: 3rd May 2022
- Summary: MARIUPOL, UKRAINE (MAY 3, 2022) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF AZOVSTAL STEELWORKS AND INDUSTRIAL AREA AROUND IT / SMOKE RISING ABOVE COMPLEX
- Embargoed: 17th May 2022 19:58
- Keywords: Azovstal Mariupol Russia Ukraine crisis military steelworks
- Location: MARIUPOL, UKRAINE
- City: MARIUPOL, UKRAINE
- Country: Ukraine
- Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Europe,Military Conflicts
- Reuters ID: LVA001557103052022RP1
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Smoke was seen rising above the encircled Azovstal steel works in Mariupol, Ukraine's last redoubt in the port city, on Tuesday (May 3) after a ceasefire broke down with some civilians still trapped beneath the sprawling site despite a U.N.-brokered evacuation.
However, scores of evacuees who managed to leave under U.N. and Red Cross auspices at the weekend after cowering for weeks under the Azovstal plant finally reached the relative safety of Ukraine-controlled Zaporizhzhia.
Russia has turned its heaviest firepower on Ukraine's east and south since failing to take Kyiv, the capital, in March.
But it has also struck targets much further west in a drive to limit Ukraine's access to the Black Sea, vital for its grain and metal exports, and also to disrupt supplies of Western military aid to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's forces.
On Tuesday Russia's defence ministry said its forces had struck a military airfield near the port of Odesa with missiles, destroying drones, missiles and ammunition supplied to Ukraine by the United States and its European allies. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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