Russian forces are storming the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, its defenders said Tuesday — less than two weeks after Russian President Vladimir Putin made a show of calling off plans to attack the Ukrainian redoubt. “The enemy is trying to storm the Azovstal plant with significant forces using armored vehicles,” said Denys Shlega, a Ukrainian National Guard commander at Azovstal.The sprawling, Soviet-era metalworks — a maze of bunkers and tunnels — has been likened to a Ukrainian Alamo in the decimated port city of Mariupol. Some 2,000 of the city’s last remaining defenders have been holed up there for weeks, along with a few hundred civilians hiding from the Russian advance.
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