A Ukrainian commander inside the Azovstal steel plant said on Wednesday that Russian forces have breached the facility’s perimeter.

In a video message, Lt. Col. Denys Prokopenko, commander of the Azov Regiment, said that for the second day, “bloody fighting” is going on inside the Mariupol facility where hundreds of Ukrainian troops and civilians are surrounded by Russian forces.

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