Reuters journalists visited Mariupol near the Ilyich metallurgical plant, where until recently the Ukrainian military kept the defense. They described what they saw like this:
“The plant turned into silent ruins from sole -mired steel and blown up concrete, without signs of the presence of defenders. Outside on nearby streets, at least half a dozen of the bodies of civilians, including a woman in a pink jacket and white shoes, are scattered. ”
The BBC Russian Service published a video shot by Reuters reporters near the Ilyich plant.
The video was made on April 15. On this day, at the morning briefing of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, it was announced that the Ilyich metallurgical plant in Mariupol "was completely freed from Ukrainian nationalists."