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“Here, another bomb…”
Lieutenant Ilyia Samiolenko pauses for a moment but his face remains impassive.
Dark gaze, thick black beard and hair slicked back, this officer of the Azov regiment has been speaking for nearly two hours in front of a bare white wall that says nothing about where he is hiding.
Before giving him the floor, the host of a rare press conference organized on Sunday afternoon on the Zoom application simply confirmed that the soldier is in the Azovstal factory in Mariupol, where his battalion has been besieged for years. weeks by the Russian army.
“Enemy bombardments have intensified further in recent days”
, says Ilyia Samiolenko, while the evacuation of hundreds of women, children and elderly people trapped on this huge industrial site came to an end this weekend.
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