Photographs show 'wounded defenders of Mariupol' trapped in Azovstal steel plant | ITV News

Wounded Ukrainian defenders trapped in Mariupol's besieged Azovstal steel plant have been captured in a series of moving images as part of an appeal urging the world to act and evacuate them.

Fighters of the Azov Batallion said their wounded comrades are living in unsanitary conditions “with open wounds bandaged with non-sterile remnants of bandages, without the necessary medication and even food.”

An estimated 2,000 Ukrainian fighters - along with 100 civilians, officials say - remain holed up in the plant's complex underground tunnels representing the last pocket of organised resistance in the embattled city.

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