The fight in Mariupol is not over. Civilians and Ukrainian fighters including combatants from the Azov Regiment, the same nationalist unit that helped wrest back the city in 2014 remain hunkered down in a dramatic last stand at the sprawling Azovstal Iron and Steel Works.
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(Reuters) -Russian forces attempted to storm the Ukrainian-held Azovstal steel plant in the besieged southeastern city of Mariupol on Sunday, Ukrainian officials said, despite Russian President Vladimir Putin's comments last week that the complex did not need to be taken.
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