Ukraine war: Russia ’trying to storm Mariupol steel plant’, refuge to some 1,000 civilians

Subscribe to The Telegraph with our special offer: just £1 for 3 months. Start your free trial now: Russian forces have resumed air strikes and are trying to storm the Azovstal steel works in Mariupol, Ukraine’s presidential adviser has said. “The enemy is trying to strangle the final resistance of the defenders of Mariupol in the Azovstal area,“ OleksiyArestovych said on national television.