Two thousand Ukrainian troops thought to be trapped inside steelworks after civilian evacuation
Members of Ukraine’s Azov battalion trapped inside Mariupol’s Azovstal steel plant have said they fear they will be executed if captured by Russian forces, as they pleaded with Ukrainian authorities to help arrange their extraction.
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