Azovstal eyewitness recounts her evacuation from Mariupol steel plant
By DW
19 May 2022 |
5:26 am
Two months of nonstop bombardments, without medicine or enough food: A civilian spoke with DW about her rescue from a bunker in the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol.
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