Ukraine's Zelensky praises helicopter pilots who died trying to fly aid into Mariupol

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KYIV - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday praised military pilots who died trying, despite near impossible odds, to deliver aid to fighters who were besieged at a steel plant in Mari

upol, a city that Russia claims has finally fallen to its forces after a siege that lasted for months.

He described the pilots as"absolutely heroic people" who knew it was"almost impossible" to bring medicine, food and water to the Azovstal steel plant, as well as to evacuate the wounded and bring out bodies of those killed, because they would have to run a gauntlet of Russia's air defenses with no established air corridor.

The Ukrainian military said on Saturday that Russia is demining the port in an attempt to get it running again.

 

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