that was enver tskitishvili, director-general _ point.vili, director-general of _ point. that was enver tskitishvili, director-general of the _ point. that was enver tskitishvili, director-general of the azovstal l director—general of the azovstal steelworks in mariupol. some fascinating detail really about why ukrainian troops wanted to go there in the first place and civilians too to shelter themselves from that russian bombardment at the start of the war. the ukrainian military says it is continuing to prevent russian forces from advancing in parts of the donbas region in the east of this country. this town is encircled on three sides by russian troops. most of that town's residents have left, with the last remaining in some pretty desperate conditions and under constant russian shelling. our correspondent andrew harding has been there and sent this report. the russians are getting closer. their missiles landing to our left and are right, we take the last road into lysychansk. a farming town under siege. we are following a ukrainian ar

that was enver tskitishvili, director—general of the azovstal steelworks in mariupol.ys it's continuing to prevent russian forces from advancing in parts of the donbas region. the eastern town of lysychansk is encircled on three sides by russian troops. most of the city's residents have left, with the last remaining people in desperate conditions, and under constant shelling. andrew harding sent this report. the russians are getting closer, their missiles landing to our left and our right as we take the last road into lysychansk, a farming town under siege. we're following a ukrainian army medic, olive kravchenka, pointing out the town's latest lacerations. look here, bomb. he's taking us closer to the front lines, to a hidden base from where his teams scoop up casualties. several days, it's blood, blood, blood, blood. the russians are making a big push now. yeah, yeah. very, very. you'd say the fighting is getting a lot worse now? yeah, very extreme. very extreme and very dangerous, very. the army has taken over the local hospital. a soldier is brought in by ambulance

i've been speaking to enver tskitishvili, director general of the azovstal steel works.that this steelworks is a vast, sprawling industrial complex in the city of mariupol. it dates back to 1930, and in the soviet era they built more than 30 bunkers underneath that steelworks. some of them in the 19705 steelworks. some of them in the 1970s were built to withstand a nuclear strike. there is also a whole network of underground tunnels reaching some eight metres underneath the ground. so that is why both the ukrainian fighters and many civilians took refuge there, as the director general of the company has been telling me. translation: we never thought about it until 2014. _ we didn't imagine that azovstal could become some kind of fortress, or such an important point in the city of mariupol. when mariupol, especially the eastern part of the city, came under shelling by artillery, heavy artillery, we started to think about what we could do if the escalation came further into the city. and we started to restore bomb shelters which remained from the soviet union. there were f