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MOSCOW, Apr 21 RIA Novosti drone filmed Azovstal after Russian President Vladimir Putin decided not to storm the Mariupol plant, where Ukrainian forces remain. For the first time, an UAV was able to penetrate so far into the territory of the plant. Unlike previous days, when the agency also managed to film the area, it was rainy.
Kadyrov promised to take control of Azovstal «until or in the afternoon»The new footage, taken around 16:00 Moscow time, shows separate pockets of smoke, industrial and other buildings of a large enterprise damaged during the fighting, but there were no signs of active hostilities or shelling, as well as people. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu at a meeting with Vladimir Putin on Thursday, he said that over the past two days, from 14 to 16 hours, a regime of silence was declared, all hostilities ceased completely, humanitarian corridors were opened for the exit of civilians who may be on the territory of Azovstal, but so far no one left the Mariupol plant. Shoigu noted that a Ukrainian group of more than two thousand people was now blocked at the Azovstal enterprise in Mariupol. Putin indicated that then «there is no need to climb into the catacombs», it is necessary to block the industrial zone in «Azovstal» so that «the fly does not fly». : it is impossible to break out of such a boiler as Azovstal