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Inside Mariupol steel plant as army chief describes horror of being bombed for 73 days

A Ukraine army chief holed up in the besieged Mariupol steel plant gave the Mirror a harrowing account of conditions inside.

Ilya Samoilenko describes the terror of being bombed for 73 days by the Russians while desperately trying to hold the Azovstal plant.

Samoilenko, 36, is in charge of the Ukraine army intelligence and reconnaissance in the factory.

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