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War in Ukraine: the UN struggles to save the last survivors of Azovstal

2022-05-04T17:08:52.742Z


STORY - In this immense industrial complex, bastion of the Ukrainian resistance, civilians hide under the bombardments.


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Osnat Lubrani searches for words, exhausted.

In the dim light of a small bare office in Zaporijjia, in eastern Ukraine, she speaks by video interposed, this Tuesday, with reporters from around the world invited by the UN.

The UN humanitarian coordinator in Ukraine, in post since 2018, has just overseen the somewhat miraculous evacuation of 101 civilians from Mariupol.

The operation, launched on Friday April 29, required the chartering of 11 buses, more or less in working order, then crossing combat zones, bypassing destroyed infrastructure, and arriving in Mariupol on April 30.

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We were only able to stay there for two days, because it was complex and risky

," says the American of Israeli origin.

In the last bastion of Ukrainian resistance, the immense Azovstal industrial complex, specters emerge from the rubble, in poor condition, struggling to step over the rubble, to stand on their own legs.

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There are a lot of old people who are badly...

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Source: lefigaro

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