In Mariupol, Russian invaders continue to storm the Azovstal metallurgical plant, where civilians and Ukrainian defenders are located. Aleksey Arestovich, Advisor to the Head of the President's Office, announced this during a briefing on Monday, April 25.

" They are trying to move there in assault groups, that is, they are violating the order of their commander-in-chief, Russian President Vladimir Putin, which once again shows who we are fighting against,"

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Kyiv ready to do everything to open humanitarian corridor from Azovstal - Vereshchuk.

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Earlier, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reported that Russia had not abandoned its plans to use chemical weapons against the Ukrainian military and civilians on the territory of the Azovstal plant..

Faced with a fierce rebuff in Ukraine, the Kremlin abandoned its plan to seize Kyiv and install its own puppet government there.. Moscow announced that initially its main goal was to reach the borders of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, as well as to create a land corridor from Crimea to the Donbass. What prospects await the invaders in the near future Tatyana Silina told in the article “The Battle for Donbass: Why Putin Must Lose”?