The mayor of Mariupol said that more than 600 people were injured in Russian bombing that struck the makeshift hospital facility within the besieged Azovstal steel complex. The Azovstal plant was heavily bombed on Wednesday night, according to multiple accounts. Boichenko also claimed that the Russians had set up four “filtration” centers in the city where those who want to be evacuated are screened. “If someone leaves the city and he is, in one way or another, connected with the civil service, with the municipal service, they get the sad news that they go to prison. He said some families who wanted to leave for Ukrainian territory were being forced to go to Russian-controlled areas.

Source: Egypt Independent April 29, 2022 15:20 UTC