Ukrayinska Pravda
Operating room is wrecked, at least 1 fighter has been killed: Azovstal does not see how to help the injured from now on
Alyona Mazurenko, “Ukrainska Pravda” – April 29, 2022
ukrpravda@gmail.com (Ukrayinska Pravda) April 28, 2022
At least one Ukrainian defender died under the rubble of a field hospital at the “Azovstal” plant, and almost a hundred wounded soldiers got another concussion. Source: Head of “Azov” Regiment press service Orest, informed “Ukrainska Pravda” interlocutors Quote: “Part of the building and the operating room collapsed as a result of the shelling. Over 500 injured people and doctors got trapped.
The shelling was deliberately targeted at the field hospital.” “Shelling from naval artillery began immediately after the bombing.” “The wounded were staying in a dilapidated shelter and could do nothing about the fire that broke out as a result of the shelling. At least one injured man was buried under the rubble.
The fighters received new injuries and concussions.” “In these conditions we do not know how we can protect those who defended Ukraine from the beginning of the war and the full-scale offensive of the aggressors and those who can no longer hold weapons in their hands.
We call on the whole world to pay attention to the flagrant violation of the Geneva Convention and to help us save those who saved the whole of Ukraine.” Details: According to “Ukrainska Pravda” interlocutor, almost 100 Ukrainian defenders at “Azovstal” got concussions.
Earlier, the “Azov” Regiment said that last night Russian aggressors conducted about 50 air strikes and dropped a large number of phosphorus bombs on Mariupol. “Azov” called on the authorities to take decisive measures to lift the blockade of the city or evacuate residents and defenders.
On the night of April 28, the Russian aggressors struck at a military field hospital on the territory of the “Azovstal” plant in Mariupol – there were casualties. Background: Mariupol has been under siege since 1 March. During his meeting with Vladimir Putin, Russian Minister of Defence, Sergei Shoigu stated that Mariupol had been allegedly seized by the aggressors, and added that the “Azovstal” plant was under Ukrainian defenders’ control.
Vladimir Putin ordered to stop the assault on the “Azovstal” plant for the camera, but the shelling only intensified after that. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Ukrainian forces still lacked the means to conduct a military operation to relieve the siege of Mariupol. On April 23, the “Azov” Regiment posted a video from the basements of the “Azovstal plant” in Mariupol, which was under aggressors’ siege. It featured children hiding from Russian bombs.
Defenders of Mariupol requested an “extraction” procedure, following the example of the operation in Dunkirk in 1940. They refused to surrender to the Russians because they did not trust the aggressors. Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, has said that the Ukrainian and Russian leadership have agreed for international organizations, in particular the UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross, to organize the evacuation of civilians from Mariupol.