BBC Ukraine Update - 6/05/2022

The Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, Ukraine.

The Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, Ukraine. Source: Azov Regiment/Cover Images

6/05/2022. Russia says it carried out multiple artillery strikes on Ukrainian positions overnight. The Russian defence ministry said it killed six hundred Ukrainian fighters in eastern parts of the country - but there is no independent verification of this. Meanwhile a Ukrainian military commander says Russia has thwarted another attempt to evacuate civilians from a beseiged steelworks on Ukraine's south coast. At least two hundred civilians are still thought to be sheltering there. Here's your update from the BBC....



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