Ukrainian soldiers and hundreds of terrified civilians remained holed up in a Mariupol steel works last night as a commander begged for help to save them in what he called “our last address to the world”.
Children and pensioners were among those trapped in a basement at the plant, the final site of Ukrainian resistance in the beseiged and battered city.
The plea for international evacuation by Major Serhiy Volyna came as there was a partial evacuation of Mariupol during a temporary ceasefire.
