Azovstal plant hit with 'incendiary bombs' by Russian-backed forces

Описание: Officials in Ukraine said video described from May 14 showed the use of incendiary bombs against the Azovstal plant in Mariupol.

Incendiary munitions are weapons designed to start fires or destroy sensitive equipment using fire.

The Deputy Prime Minister Mykhailo Fedorov said there was “possible use of illegal phosphorus bombs”.

Petr Andryushchenko, an adviser to the city’s mayor who posted the video on Telegram, said it showed how Russian forces had used “incendiary or phosphorous bombs against the Defenders of Mariupol for the first time.”

A Ukrainian military analysis site has documented the use of 9M22S incendiary munitions by Russia during its invasion.

It said these weapons were not phosphorous-based and noted “the effect of these flammable munitions … is often confused with phosphorus munitions.”

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday (May 15) said talks with Russia on evacuating that remaining in the Azovstal plant in Mariupol were still ongoing.

Russian forces have been constantly bombarding the steelworks in the southern port of Mariupol, the last bastion of hundreds of Ukrainian defenders in a city almost completely controlled by Russia after more than two months of a siege.

''We are continuing very difficult and delicate negotiations in order to save our people from Mariupol, from Azovstal. We do this every day,'' Zelenskiy said in his nightly address.

A UKRAINIAN commander leading the last stand at the besieged Mariupol steelworks told The Sun on Sunday of his comrades’ nightmare conditions — as harrowing photographs laid bare their courage.

The Azov Regiment troops have refused to surrender their bunkers under the smashed industrial site, despite the Russian firestorm which levelled the city.

The shell-shocked band have suffered terrible wounds under a constant hail of missiles, bombs and bullets.

But the deputy ­commander Captain Svyatoslav Palamar declared: “We are tired but we are not broken.”

The fighters are starving and forced to drink rainwater contaminated by the decomposing bodies of their dead.

Medics have to amputate shattered or gangrene- infected limbs without anaesthetic.

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