More than a thousand soldiers were evacuated from the Azovstal steel plant, and Russia is consolidating control of Mariupol. It is making plans to annex the southwestern parts of the country.
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Mariupol. and that situation is dire and an official there says russian forces are threatening to close down the city monday, in what they call filtering out any remaining man, and their words. this, after mariupol rejected a russian surrender ultimatum on sunday. so, how long do you think ukrainian fighters in mariupol can hold off russian forces? look, putting a city under siege is a long term business. if you think back to your history the siege of leningrad lasted many months, where russian forces were outnumbered by superior german forces in the second world war. so if you bring back the focus to today, it s possible that although the russians had captured parts a variable, there are still enough ukrainian fighters inside mariupol to make lives difficult for them and certainly impose cost on them if they tried to take the city as a whole. without controlling mariupol, it s very difficult for the russians to coordinate a