A Ukrainian official on Saturday said Russia had resumed its attempts to storm the resistance stronghold under the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol where thousands of Ukrainian civilians and soldiers remain holed up.
"The enemy is trying to strangle the final resistance of the defenders of Mariupol in the Azovstal area," Ukrainian presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovych said in a televised address according to Reuters.
The advisor's comments come just days after Russian President Vladimir Putin said he didn’t believe a ground assault on the plant was"necessary." "One does not have to climb into these catacombs and crawl there underground around these industrial objects," he said."Block this industrial zone in such a way that even a fly could not fly through."
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