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Ukraine remains in control of the Azot chemical plant in Sievierodonetsk where hundreds of civilians are sheltering, the region’s governor said on Saturday, after a Russia-backed separatist claimed 300 to 400 Ukrainian fighters were also trapped there.Serhiy Gaidai, governor of the Luhansk region“Our forces are holding an industrial zone of Sievierodonetsk and are destroying the Russian army in the town,” he wrote.
Ukraine has said some 800 people were hiding in several bomb shelters underneath the Azot plant, including about 200 employees and 600 residents of Sievierodonetsk.said late on Saturday that some civilians had started to leave. “There are occasional exchanges of fire. ... They may still be holding several hundred civilians hostage,” he said in an online post. Reuters was not immediately able to verify his account.
Miroshnik had earlier said 300 to 400 Ukrainian fighters were blockaded on the grounds of the plant along with civilians and had tried to negotiate their passage to Lysychansk, Sievierodonetsk’s twin city. Smoke rises after a military strike on a compound of Sievierodonetsk’s Azot Chemical Plant, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in the town of Lysychansk, Luhansk region, Ukraine June 10, 2022.
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