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How many tons of shells fell on Azovstal for three months?
We don't know the figures, but the factory and its surroundings testify to the deluge of steel that poured into the symbolic site of the fighting in Mariupol for many weeks: walls chopped up and calcined by the bombardments, heaps of Metallic structures as far as the eye can see, twisted and tangled, the ground riddled with impacts and strewn with innumerable debris, ammunition, clothing, helmets... A terrifying setting where the smell of death still floats here and there, like a was able to see this on Monday the special envoy of
Le Figaro
during an unprecedented visit organized for the press by the Russian army.
On May 20, the huge factory - it covers twelve hectares on the edge of the Sea of Azov - was conquered by pro-Russian forces after the surrender of more than 2,000 Ukrainian fighters and the evacuation of a thousand civilians who had been there. found refuge.
Both were holed up underground – dozens of…
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