Plumes Of Smoke Rise Over Mariupol Steel Plant As Ukrainian Soldiers Hold Out



Drone footage showed plumes of smoke rising from the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, where Ukrainian soldiers are staging a last stand against the Russian siege. Russia has launched a renewed offensive in Ukraine’s Donbas region.

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  1. can't verify it, but i heard on alternative news show that America sent some special forces over there in Ukraine. And some are holding out in that plan.. Also, there have been a couple of failed attempts to rescue them. You won't hear this on any news channel.

  2. We are being duped. The complex is quoted as having civilians escaping bombing, but it is the opposite – the nationalists forced mothers and children into the complex knowing that Russia will strictly not fire at civilians, thus they are acting as human shields.That is why they are not bombing the complex but patiently waiting for the nationalists, NATO commanders, and fascists to surrender. The public building shelling elsewhere is not by the Russian military but by the militant Ukrainian Nationalists coup, and the shelling of the hospital was after it was evacuated and held by the nationalist militants – they are using public buildings to help their defense, knowing that Russia has strict orders to protect civilians . This shelling by nationalists been going since 2014 well before Russia had a single soldier there for seven years and was attempting Minsk II to which Washington continually blocked. I visited Ukraine 4 times the last decade and in daily regular contact with people on the ground.

  3. The world prays to a god but where is he in times like this ? I'm so tired of hearing that this god has a plan and why he let's evil override him .
    No one prays to evil gods but yet they seem more powerful than the one everyone donates money to hear how powerful god is ….?????
    Where are you GOD …?

  4. Amazing how Trump called this "genius" 2 months ago.

  5. Go forth and tell the Ukrainians, oh passersby, that obedient to our sacred honor, we lie!

  6. Rosja zlikwiduje bojowników Azow jak terrorystów. Wpuszczą gaz usypiający lub dym gaz pieprzowy ? Czy uzyją broni earth penetration weapon taką jaką uzył Trump w Afganistanie 2017 na jaskinie Talibow? .Na wolnosci Azow bedzie likwidowal Rosjan.Szkoleni przez NATO .Chyba ze wezma ich do niewoli na 5 lat,Rosja zbombarduje wybrzeże Odessy,Odesse gdzie lecą drony i pociski atakujace flotę Rosji , zatopią ukrainską flotę , zbombardują przejscia graniczne drogowe i kolejowe pociagi z zachodniej granicy aby niszczyć zachodnie konwoje , zniszczą zakłady wojskowe centra radiolokacji i teleinfomacji lacznosici radary satelity .zaklady azotowe chemiczne zaklady zbrojeniowe Rosja siegnie po swych wiezniow i kryminalistow oraz mniejszoci narodowe, ludzie tarcze w tym najemników z trzeciego swiata i zuzyje arnenał radziecki z lat 1930-1999 oraz pojazdy smiglowce transportery, torpedy miny, miotacze , sowieckie modzieże, helikoptery granaty haubice wyrzutnie rakiet rakiety pomby sowieckie i pociski balistyczne , potem bedzie trzecia faza a potem czwarta czyli ogloszenie prawdziwej wojny. Polecą kasetówki napalm zaminują lasy pola spalą je bron fosforowa herbicydy, kinzhal zyrkon iskandery grady Topole M,BMT Terminator, Katiusha Tornado S i Tornado B roboty Uran , radary Zoopark, bron antypancerna kornet, zhilka, drony orlan ohotnik korsar forpost i 60 odniam UAV i drony kamikaze , bombowce sowiecki sprzet z krajow trzecich i postsowieckich , rtuć -BM, Arena M Arena APS i czołgi Armata ,termobaryczna bron potem sarmat 2 takie sarmaty i nie ma całej ukrainy

  7. puck putin talk logistics

  8. a mutual bus evacuation line bolstered by the UN

  9. what would be smart is to exchange bus drivers to ensure trust… the belorusian

  10. Please help us! Save the soldiers of Mariupol and civilians!  The Ukrainian government is doing nothing to save the inhabitants of Mariupol and the Ukrainian army in Mariupol.  They are in blockade for two months, wounded and without food, without weapons.  Ukraine is taking advantage of the situation.  The Ukrainian government deliberately allowed this situation to happen.  Influence the government of Ukraine, we beg you!  Thanks for the help!

  11. These old people are running out of fresh diapers .

  12. Wish that Gen Patton and his Third Army was here , just like they way they did came and broke through the seige of Bastogne. Such of heroes cannot find now days

  13. Wish that Gen Patton and his Third Army was here , just like they way they did came and broke through the seige of Bastogne. Such of heroes cannot find now days

  14. All the western reports are from the Ukraine perspective and speak for the Ukraine. Not a single one reflects on why the war happened in the first place. And all the Russian medias are muted. And even some Chinese media. People are intentionally blinded and tricked into condemning the "obvious invasion", while the US military-industrial complex is making a huge fortune from this war, just like what they did in WWI and WWII. If the world continued to be blind and ignorant on this, the WWIII is a definite thing very soon.

  15. Get em Russia, show the Yankees nato west what real combat is.

  16. I wonder what flavor Kool-Aid Zelenskyy told them to drink…hmmm..

  17. Send finally those heavy weapons to Ukraine! – save innocent people!! – you can make more

  18. WHY are you all upset NOW???
    I already told you almost 10 YEARS ago: /watch/tibyEQ-fZyw

  19. Surprised the Russians have not burned the steel plant fighters out of the bunkers. This is a thousands of years old tactic.

  20. Why does Azov always lock civilians in basements and shoot them when they try to leave? DPR and Russian forces are evacuating citizens and providing aid in Mariupol, what's all this BS on this side of the pond?

  21. HELP US TO EVACUATE MARIUPOL
    💔🙏🏿

  22. The reality is that Ukraine fighters use these civilians as human shields at the Azovstal steel plant.

  23. Capture of foreign fighters is a bad publicity I guess…on the other hand Ukraine military was preventing african students from leaving the country….probably hoping they die…African death in Ukraine is a good publicity….

  24. ❤🇺🇦❤🇦🇫🙏🤲😭😭😭

  25. I'm just here to see what the youtube war/strategy experts have to say

  26. Check out the other "Ukraine" that's been ravaged by Israeli occupiers.

  27. Everyone is so focused on Ukraine. whats happening now in palestine is the same why doesnt the news report any of that? People and kids dieing and everyone just wants to close their eyes and see what ever they want to see. This world is just sad. So many unjust and hypocrisy.

  28. so, no one not NATO, the US or even the Ukranians themselves were able to help the people there in the end, huh? Was it really so hard to spot the movements of Putin's soldiers from satellites or Google live map in such a way that their big guns could be effectively targeted?

  29. So sad for the civilians being held captive as human shields by the Neo-Nazi holdouts. It will be all over soon.

  30. Russia should give death sentence to western mercenaries and tgen offer them in return for assets, otherwise execute one publicaly each day with live broadcasts…

  31. I don't think Russia should destroy the steel factory, afterall it is what the Azov suicide brigades want.

  32. 一将功成万骨枯 One will succeed and ten thousand bones will wither

  33. Well done Russia, please make this CIA agents rest in pieces scattered everywhere.

  34. Look, I think there are 2 options for the AZOV battalion left, 1, surrender and live, and live like a coward forever or 2, be a real man and fight to the death even with steel knives, bars, hammers, screwdrivers and fire, pitty I can't be with you guy's, I would have been a great accet, Willpower, tactics, and violence is my specialty and I don't fear death, I have money to come, but someone local, just have to contact me

  35. Over a thousand women and children are trapped in the steel mill. If president Putin refuses to allow the defenseless to leave during the four day Christian observance of Easter then he fighting against God.

  36. According to a just read, the commander of the fighters and civilians inside the steel factory is pleading with world leaders to rescue all inside. Why isn't he pleading to Zelensky and military leaders to give him the order to surrended! The Russians gave the Ukraine commander inside the factory 2 opportunities to surrender unharmed, but they refused because Zelensky ordered them to remain and fight. Zelensky is killing of his own people and staging civilian deaths to drag the US and NATO into the war. IMO

  37. All while warehouses are stockpiling western weapons for their protection. While those in the east are left to fight without them! 😠 😡

  38. so the Russians are evacuating people out of the area before the bomb the Nazis

  39. Most of the troops in the steel plant are mercenaries. The Geneva convention doesn't protect mercenaries. I feel they would be dealt with ruthlessly. I don't understand how someone would throw away his conscience and become a soldier for fortune.

  40. Patrick Lancaster, on the ground journalist showing very graphic images in Mariupol. On YT.

  41. Slava Ukrainie🇮🇩🇺🇦

  42. This heroic act of the Ukrainian in defending their city, that shown to the leaders of others nations the different of cowards or true freedom protectors