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Nicholas Cecil

Ukrainian soldiers holed up in chemical plant ‘resisting Russian onslaught on three fronts’

Smoke rises from the Ukrainian city of Severodonetsk

(Picture: AFP via Getty Images)

Ukrainian soldiers holed up in a chemical plant in the embattled city of Severodonetsk were resisting a Russian onslaught on three fronts on Wednesday morning, according to a provincial governor.

More than 500 civilians are trapped inside the Azot factory where Ukrainian troops have resisted weeks of Russian bombardment and assaults that have reduced much of the industrial city in the eastern Luhansk province to ruins.

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