The Russian Ministry of Defense announced Monday, May 16 that a truce had been established at the Azovstal steelworks, the last bastion of Ukrainian resistance in the city of Mariupol, in order to evacuate the wounded Ukrainians.
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A regime of silence (of weapons) is currently in effect and an open humanitarian corridor through which wounded Ukrainian soldiers are transferred to medical establishments in Novoazovsk
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