To the people of Mariupol, it was a refuge. To the soldiers, it was a fortress. This is the story of the battle for Azovstal, an apocalyptic siege at a sprawling steel plant where Russian brutality met Ukrainian resistance. nytimes.com/2022/07/24/wor…
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For 80 days, a small group of Ukrainian soldiers, short on ammunition, food and water, kept a larger, more powerful Russian force bogged down in a quagmire that brought misery and death on both sides.
Trapped with them were dozens of civilians, who in the war's early days had sought shelter in the many bunkers beneath the plant. There they became trapped as Russian forces surrounded the factory and unleashed a punishing bombardment that lasted weeks.