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Ukraine said a new attempt was under way on Friday to evacuate civilians trapped in a heavily bombed steel works in the city of Mariupol, after bloody fighting with Russian forces thwarted efforts to bring them to safety the previous day. Mariupol, a strategic southern port on the Azov Sea, has endured the most destructive siege of the 10-week-old war and the sprawling Soviet-era Azovstal steel plant is the last part of the city still in the hands of holdout Ukrainian fighters. UN-brokered evacuations of some of the hundreds of civilians who had taken shelter in the plant’s network of...
