The creative association Babylon’13 has published a video “Mariupol Fortress. Last day on Azovstal”, which shows footage of the shattered plant. The operator was the Ukrainian military Dmytro Kozatsky, call sign “Orest”,
KYIV.UkraineGate , 21 , May , 2022 | War News .
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“Mariupol Fortress” is a series of films based on video calls to soldiers who are now surrounded in Mariupol on “Azovstal”. Since the beginning of the siege, the director has been talking to soldiers of the Azov Regiment, revealing their portraits. Orest has been on Azovstal since the beginning of the encirclement of Mariupol. On the eve of his departure from the shattered plant, he made a farewell film, – said in a statement.
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As it is noted, Orest, the head of the press service of the Azov Regiment, has been at Azovstal since the beginning of the encirclement of Mariupol – 84 days. He shot the footage on the eve of its release and handed it over to documentarians. The four-minute video was given the appropriate name – “Mariupol Fortress. Last day on Azovstal”.
What preceded
Early in the morning of February 24, Russia launched an open full-scale war on the territory of Ukraine. The Russian military is cynically shelling homes, hospitals, schools and kindergartens. The whole world is in solidarity with Ukraine in the fight against Russian aggression.
From the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Mariupol was surrounded. The occupiers approached him from the Crimea.
According to the Mariupol City Hall, 90% was destroyed by Russian artillery and aircraft. More than 20,000 from daily shelling. 600 civilians , including children, were killed in an air strike on the Drama Theater.
During the war, the occupiers did not stop looting. Yes, they are robbing the archives and cultural funds of museums to export valuable exhibits to Russia.
On May 16, Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar told a telethon that Russian President Vladimir Putin did not agree to rescue the Ukrainian military blocked at Azovstal in Mariupol .
On May 17, an operation to rescue those blocked on the territory of the Azovstal plant began.
In an interview on the occasion of the third anniversary of the inauguration, Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukraine had lost many pilots who flew to help the defenders of Mariupol.
On May 21, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed that the Ukrainian military should be exchanged with Azovstal.
Source: Ukrgate
