Occupants in Mariupol have launched a ground operation and are trying to break into the middle of Azovstal. This was announced by the adviser to the mayor of the city Petr Andryushchenko.

" Azovstal. The occupiers, under the cover of shelling, are trying to break through the ground into the plant,” Andryushchenko wrote..

The situation is getting more complicated, he said..

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Earlier, Tatyana Lomakina, the coordinator of humanitarian corridors from the presidential office, said that Ukraine is trying to negotiate with Russia on the evacuation of doctors, wounded soldiers, and other civilians from Azovstal who are still in Mariupol itself..

On May 11, Irina Vereshchuk said that our side proposes the following scheme for rescue from Azovstal at this stage: Ukraine will withdraw the seriously wounded fighters, and return the captured Russians according to the standard rules for the exchange of prisoners of war.