Azovstal owner: "Catastrophe"; Operation in the Black Sea zone; "Blackmailing Europe"

The fiercest battles are being fought in Mariupol around the "Azovstal" iron and steel works. The UN is preparing to evacuate civilians from the ironworks.
The UN has formed a team for the evacuation of civilians from Mariupol, said the deputy official representative of the UN Secretary General, Farhan Haq. As he stated, the conditions for evacuation from "Azovstal" have not been provided yet.
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that all decisions have been made on Moscow's reaction in the event of a threat to Russia's strategic security.
The Russian leader said that the plans, as he said, of Russian opponents to destroy the country with sanctions, had failed.

Guterres in Ukraine Tanjug/ AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres is in Ukraine, a meeting with Zelensky is expected.
The day before, he was in Moscow and talked with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and described the meeting as "very useful".

The owner of the Azovstal steel plant announced himself

Hundreds, and maybe even thousands of Ukrainians find refuge in the underground tunnels of the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol. It is considered to be the final stronghold of the Ukrainian resistance in the city.
The executive director of Metinvest Holding, which owns the steel plant, said those trapped in the complex are likely to be left without food and water. Yuriy Ryzhenkov told Sky News that the prepared food and water supplies were supposed to last three weeks, but that civilians and soldiers have now been captured for almost two months. He said that he does not know how many employees are still in the factory, but it seems that it is a "humanitarian catastrophe".
- They tried to evacuate civilians, but...