A Ukrainian marine commander issued what he called their “last address to the world” while his troops battled overwhelming Russian forces in Mariupol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They were outmanned and running low on supplies, according to Major Serhiy Volyna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Russian deadline for Ukrainian military capitulation has passed with no sign of the forces complying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The final holdouts live at the city’s vast Azovstal steel plant, which houses 1,000 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to Kyiv, a tentative deal to evacuate certain residents of the city has been struck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the city’s mayor, Vadym Boichenko, who spoke on national television, Ukraine had planned to send 90 buses to evacuate around 6,000 residents on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to him, almost 100,000 people are stranded in Mariupol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, regional governor Pavlo Kyrylenko later reported that fewer buses were able to reach trapped civilians than predicted, and that only a small number of individuals were rescued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Of course, many came at the agreed-upon meeting points,” he told the news agency, “but just a tiny number of them boarded the buses.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Azovstal Iron and Steel Works, a sprawling four-square-mile (10-square-kilometer) complex in Mariupol’s south-east, has emerged as the city’s last bastion of Ukrainian resistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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