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"Surrender Is Not An Option": Ukraine Troops In Azovstal Steel Plant

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Kyiv:  Ukraine forces holed up in the sprawling Azovstal steel works in the Russian-controlled city of Mariupol said Sunday they would not surrender and vowed to fight as long as needed. "We, all of the military personnel in the garnison of Mariupol, we have witnessed the war crimes performed by Russia, by the Russian army. We are witnesses. Surrender is not an option because Russia is not interested in our lives," said Ilya Samoilenko, an Azov regiment intelligence officer. The Azovstal steel mill is the last pocket of Ukrainian resistance in the devastated port city and its fate has taken on a symbolic value in the broader battle since Russia's invasion. "All our supplies are limited. We still have water. We still have munitions. We will have our personal weapons. We will fight until the best resolution of the situation," Samoilenko said. Ukraine has said that all women, children and elderly civilians have been allowed to flee from Azovstal as part of a humani...

Cold Warriors Stoke Another War in Ukraine

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Kyiv:  US first lady Jill Biden made an unannounced trip to Ukraine on Sunday to show support for its people amid Russia's invasion, visiting a school that is serving as a temporary shelter and meeting Ukraine's first lady, Olena Zelenska, according to a pool report. "I thought it was important to show the Ukrainian people that this war has to stop and this war has been brutal and that the people of the United States stand with the people of Ukraine," Biden said.