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Russian President Vladimir Putin has canceled plans to storm the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, ordering a siege rather than an assault.

The Russian leader said he wanted the plant to continue to be securely blockaded instead.

Ukraine says four buses carrying evacuees from Mariupol have left the besieged city.

https://www.dw.com/en/putin-cancels-plan...a-61529869

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Putin orders siege instead of storming of Mariupol steel plant...

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov says Azovstal will fall under Russian control...

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Putin orders siege instead of storming of Mariupol steel plant...

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov says Azovstal will fall under Russian control...

President Vladimir Putin on Thursday ordered the Russian military to cancel plans to storm the Azovstal plant in the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol and said he wanted it to continue to be securely blockaded instead. 

Putin gave the order to Sergei Shoigu, his defence minister, who had previously told Putin that more than 2,000 Ukrainian fighters were still holed up in the vast plant, which has a large underground component to it. (Reuters)

12:52 (IST), Apr 21
Russian defence ministry to Putin. Russia controls all of Mariupol, except Azovstal plant, AFP reports.

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Aleksandr Dvornikov. His appointed to lead Russia's war, Putin war on Ukraine.

https://www.npr.org/2022/04/15/109288259...-dvornikov

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Putin stonewalled Ukraine’s attempts to negotiate a safe exit for them. 

Zelenske's “We are open to different formats of exchange of our people for Russian people, Russian military that they have left behind