An enormous amount of reporting went into our article about the battle for the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol. As always, though, we couldn't fit everything. Here are some interesting bits that were left out. nytimes.com/2022/07/24/wor… When the first Ukrainian troops emerged from their bunkers on May 16 to turn themselves over to Russian forces, they were attacked by a sniper who killed one soldier and injured another, according to Sergeant Medyanyk. The attack nearly scuttled the evacuation.

To the people of Mariupol, it was a refuge. To the soldiers, it was a fortress. This is the story of the battle for Azovstal, an apocalyptic siege at a sprawling steel plant where Russian brutality met Ukrainian resistance.
nytimes.com/2022/07/24/wor… For 80 days, a small group of Ukrainian soldiers, short on ammunition, food and water, kept a larger, more powerful Russian force bogged down in a quagmire that brought misery and death on both sides.

The Russian chat app Telegram says that it added 25 million users in the last 72 hours. I wonder how many of these are refugees from Twitter and Parler Shortly after Twitter blocked Trump’s account, Russia’s deputy UN ambassador tweeted that he should consider opening a Telegram account.