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Headline: Harrowing Images Show Azovstal Plant's Injured Ukrainian Defenders

Caption: These images show wounded defenders and civilians at the Azovstal Plant in Mariupol, Ukraine. Soldiers from the country's Azov Regiment have been under siege in the plant for weeks - as they hold out in the last part of Mariupol not under Russian control. In a post on the Telegram app calling for aid for the injured, Azov soldiers wrote: "The whole civilized world must see the conditions in which the wounded, crippled defenders of Mariupol are and act! In complete unsanitary conditions, with open wounds bandaged with non-sterile remnants of bandages, without the necessary medication and even food. We call on the UN and the Red Cross to show their humanity and reaffirm the basic principles on which you were created by rescuing wounded people who are no longer combatants." They also demanded the immediate evacuation of wounded servicemen to Ukrainian-controlled territories, where they will be assisted and provided with proper care.

Keywords: Azovstal, Azov Regiment, Ukraine, Russia, war, conflict, invasion, siege, Donetsk, Donbas

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