Bloody battles are raging inside the Azovstal steel works at the heart of as Ukrainian troops stage a heroic last stand despite being surrounded by Russian forces, their commander has revealed. Lieutenant Colonel Denis Prokopenko, in a video message put out last night, said Russian troops have been fighting inside the sprawling industrial complex for two days in an all-out effort to kill or capture the last of his men and take full control of the port city of Mariupol, which has now been under siege for more than two months.Prokopenko's message emerged as communications were restored overnight, hours after Ukrainian officials warned they had lost contact with the soldiers amid heavy bombardment on the plant using lung-crushing thermobaric rockets.
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