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A photo showing a cover of China s ancient military treatise The Art of War spotted at a steel factory in Ukraine went viral online. It was initially reported that the book was left by the Ukrainian army in Azov Steel Plant in Mariupol after being blockaded in for 82 days, which soon became a hot topic as many netizens opined that with The Art of War, it s no wonder that the Ukrainian army can defend for such a long period of time.
The port city in Donbas has become emblematic of the war of extermination that Russia is waging against Ukraine. But the occupation does not mark the end of Mariupol's Ukrainian history, says Roman Goncharenko.
chief editor of the multimedia project ukraine world. thank you for being hear with us. i would like to start with what we just saw there. the resistance in mariupol. what kind of symbol are those fighters becoming for ukrainians? they re becoming a symbol of heroic people. really heroic people. the plan is called azovstal, which means azov steel. and there is lots of images, lots of this symbolic images that there are people of steel. imagine the russians wants to conquer ukraine in three days and now they cannot really conquer, fully conquer mariupol in over two months. so it is already approaching three months. and this is, of course, the heroic struggle. yeah. many have speculated that putin needs a victory there to present to russians in time for victory day on monday.