{"id":37979,"date":"2022-05-21T18:04:33","date_gmt":"2022-05-21T15:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=37979"},"modified":"2022-05-21T18:04:37","modified_gmt":"2022-05-21T15:04:37","slug":"mariupol-fortress-last-day-on-azovstal-defender-shot-a-penetrating-video-farewell-from-mariupol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=37979","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Mariupol Fortress. Last day on Azovstal&#8221;: defender shot a penetrating video farewell from Mariupol"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0The creative association Babylon&#8217;13 has published a video &#8220;Mariupol Fortress. Last day on Azovstal&#8221;, which shows footage of the shattered plant.\u00a0The operator was the Ukrainian military Dmytro Kozatsky, call sign &#8220;Orest&#8221;,\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>KYIV.UkraineGate , 21 , \u00a0May , 2022 | War News .\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Quote<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Mariupol Fortress&#8221; is a series of films based on video calls to soldiers who are now surrounded in Mariupol on &#8220;Azovstal&#8221;.&nbsp;Since the beginning of the siege, the director has been talking to soldiers of the Azov Regiment, revealing their portraits.&nbsp;Orest has been on Azovstal since the beginning of the encirclement of Mariupol.&nbsp;On the eve of his departure from the shattered plant, he made a farewell film, &#8211; said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Details<\/strong><br>As it is noted, Orest, the head of the press service of the Azov Regiment, has been at Azovstal since the beginning of the encirclement of Mariupol &#8211; 84 days.&nbsp;He shot the footage on the eve of its release and handed it over to documentarians.&nbsp;The four-minute video was given the appropriate name &#8211; &#8220;Mariupol Fortress. Last day on Azovstal&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0424\u043e\u0440\u0442\u0435\u0446\u044f \u041c\u0430\u0440\u0456\u0443\u043f\u043e\u043b\u044c. \u041e\u0441\u0442\u0430\u043d\u043d\u0456\u0439 \u0434\u0435\u043d\u044c \u043d\u0430 \u0410\u0437\u043e\u0432\u0441\u0442\u0430\u043b\u0456\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/azldlmJUolc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What preceded&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Early in the morning of February 24, Russia launched an open full-scale war on the territory of Ukraine.&nbsp;The Russian military is cynically shelling homes, hospitals, schools and kindergartens.&nbsp;The whole world is in solidarity with Ukraine in the fight against Russian aggression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Mariupol was surrounded.&nbsp;The occupiers approached him from the Crimea.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the Mariupol City Hall, 90% was destroyed by Russian artillery and aircraft.&nbsp;More than 20,000 from daily shelling.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unn.com.ua\/uk\/news\/1968288-viyska-rf-skinuli-nadpotuzhnu-bombu-na-mariupolskiy-dramatichniy-teatr-ye-zagibli-i-poraneni\">600 civilians<\/a>&nbsp;, including children, were killed in an air strike on the Drama Theater.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the war, the occupiers did not stop looting.&nbsp;Yes, they are&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unn.com.ua\/uk\/news\/1974154-okupanti-rozgrabovuyut-arkhivni-ta-kulturni-fondi-muzeyiv-mariupolya\">robbing<\/a>&nbsp;the archives and cultural funds of museums to export valuable exhibits to Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On May 16, Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar told a telethon that Russian President Vladimir Putin did not agree to rescue the Ukrainian military blocked at Azovstal&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unn.com.ua\/uk\/news\/1977008-malyar-putin-ne-daye-zgodi-na-poryatunok-ukrayinskikh-biytsiv-z-azovstali\">in Mariupol<\/a>&nbsp;.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On May 17,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unn.com.ua\/uk\/news\/1977168-pochavsya-poryatunok-viyskovikh-z-azovstali-evakuyuvali-53-vazhkoporanenikh-zakhisnikiv-ukrayini\">an<\/a>&nbsp;operation to rescue those blocked on the territory of the Azovstal plant began.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an interview on the occasion of the third anniversary of the inauguration, Volodymyr Zelensky&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unn.com.ua\/uk\/news\/1977795-mi-vtratili-bagato-lotchikiv-u-mariupoli-zelenskiy\">said<\/a>&nbsp;that Ukraine had lost many pilots who flew to help the defenders of Mariupol.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On May 21, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed that the Ukrainian military should be exchanged with Azovstal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unn.com.ua\/\">Ukrgate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0The creative association Babylon&#8217;13 has published a video &#8220;Mariupol Fortress. Last day on Azovstal&#8221;, which shows footage of the shattered plant.\u00a0The operator was the Ukrainian military Dmytro Kozatsky, call sign &#8220;Orest&#8221;,\u00a0 KYIV.UkraineGate , 21 , \u00a0May , 2022 | War News .\u00a0 Quote &#8220;Mariupol Fortress&#8221; is a series of films based on video calls to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":37981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,10831],"tags":[11469,10122,813,996,2399,1064,1854],"class_list":["post-37979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ukraine-news","category-war-news","tag-fortress","tag-mariupol","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraine-gate","tag-war","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37982,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37979\/revisions\/37982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}