Operating room is wrecked, at least 1 fighter has been killed: “Azovstal” does not see how to help the injured from now on

Alyona Mazurenko, "Ukrainska Pravda" - Friday, 29 April 2022, 01:32

At least one Ukrainian defender died under the rubble of a field hospital at the Azovstal plant, and almost a hundred wounded soldiers got another concussion.

Source: Head of the "Azov" Regiment’s press service, Orest, informed interlocutors of "Ukrainska Pravda" 

Quote: "Part of the building and the operating room collapsed as a result of the shelling. Over 500 injured people and doctors were trapped. The shelling deliberately targeted the field hospital."

"Shelling from naval artillery began immediately after the bombing."

"The wounded were staying in a dilapidated shelter and could do nothing about the fire that broke out as a result of the shelling. At least one injured man was buried under the rubble. The fighters received fresh injuries and concussions."

"In these conditions we do not know how we can protect those who defended Ukraine since the beginning of the war through the full-scale offensive by the aggressors, and those who can no longer hold weapons in their hands. We call on the whole world to take note of the flagrant violation of the Geneva Convention and to help us save those who saved the whole of Ukraine."

Details: According to an "Ukrainska Pravda" interlocutor, almost 100 Ukrainian defenders at Azovstal got concussions.

Earlier, the "Azov" Regiment said that last night, Russian aggressors conducted about 50 air strikes and dropped a large number of phosphorus bombs on Mariupol. "Azov" called on the authorities to take decisive measures to lift the blockade of the city or evacuate residents and defenders.

On the night of 28 April, the Russian aggressors struck at a military field hospital on the territory of the Azovstal plant in Mariupol - there were casualties.

Background:

• Mariupol has been under siege since 1 March.

• During his meeting with Vladimir Putin [on 21 April - ed.], the Russian Minister of Defence, Sergei Shoigu, stated that Mariupol had allegedly been captured by the aggressors, and added that the Azovstal plant was under the control of Ukrainian defenders. Vladimir Putin ordered a halt to the assault on the Azovstal plant for the camera, but shelling has only intensified after that.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said [on 23 April] that Ukrainian forces still lacked the means to conduct a military operation to relieve the siege of Mariupol.
• Also on 23 April, the "Azov" Regiment posted a video from the basements of the Azovstal plant in Mariupol, which was under siege by the aggressors’. It featured children hiding from Russian bombs.
• Defenders of Mariupol requested an "extraction" procedure, following the example of the operation in Dunkirk in 1940. They refused to surrender to the Russians because they did not trust the aggressors.

António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, has said that the Ukrainian and Russian leadership have agreed for international organisations, in particular the UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross, to organise the evacuation of civilians from Mariupol.