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MOSCOW, June 14 (Xinhua) A humanitarian corridor will be opened on Wednesday to evacuate civilians in the Azot chemical plant in the strategic city of Sievie
over the weekend we had reports of a large chemical plant, the azot plant, being shelled and a large fire and many tonnes of fuel and oil leaking out of radiators. that is a place, as many places in the city are, where civilians are sheltering. 800 people we understand are there, as well as ukrainian soldiers, a few hundred of them. it is a mixed picture. it is worth saying, it is difficult to get clear information out because it is so dangerous now, there aren t manyjournalists there and we have not got contact with any and there are no mobile phone signals, so really knowing what is going on requires you to speak to both sides who give you fairly partial information. and on the aid, the artillery, the air defences that volodymyr zelensky is calling for, do we know if some of those are in the country but theyjust haven t got to the right places for the ukrainians to use them? you will be unsurprised to know that they don t give us this sort of information.