Azovstal garrison: 'We'll keep fighting as long as we're alive'

[highplainsdem]

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https://kyivindependent.com/national/azovstal-garrison-well-keep-fighting-as-long-as-were-alive/

Exhausted soldiers have overgrown beards and haven’t had a chance to bathe for a long time. In the half-dark of dungeons, they sleep on cardboard boxes or heaps of torn clothes. Some manage to erect makeshift tents and pretend to be having a cozy shelter.

Sometimes one can get a couple of hours of sleep in underground shelters. And many try and take a nap outside, right at their firing positions in the ruins.

They still have the remnants of standard military rations and grits found elsewhere, from which they cook thin soups and porridge on campfires.

Some younger soldiers grew thin and weigh as little as 59 kilograms, as a result of what they ironically call “the Azovstal diet.”

59 kilograms is 130 pounds.

[Javaman]

1. I hope they stay strong

I know that’s a feeble comment at best, considering what they are going through, I truly hope they make it out alive and get reinforced somehow 😕

[drray23]

2. hopefully the Ukrainian army is going to be able to push in their direction

They have been taking back territory around kharkiv north and east, hopefully they also push south towards Mariupol and manage to reinforce/rescue them.