Ina maria told me this story that i think really reveals starkly what russia's intentions are for you crane. She herself lived through the first month or so of the war in meriupland then was able to escape aras govarosrisikimsodata. And she talks about getting to a russian check point and seeing a soldier there who said, onemabusodos o sto pit o mistie, we will exterminate everyone there. Go to russia tre we'll be right back. Ine taso, she said that. Do you know, as they started spending time together, she came to realize that, in her words, oste
For the past two months, a group of Ukrainian fighters has been holed up in the Azovstal steel plant in the city of Mariupol, mounting a last stand against Russian forces in a critical part of eastern Ukraine.
On Monday, Ukraine finally surrendered the plant.
After the end of the determined resistance at Azovstal, we hear from Leonid Kuznetsov, a 25 year-old soldier who had been stationed inside.
Guest: Michael Schwirtz, an investigative reporter for The New York Times.
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