Russians are avoiding damaging Mariupol Port - official

Russians are avoiding damaging Mariupol Port 

A senior management figure of Mariupol Port, who escaped from the besieged city yesterday, has told that much of the city has been completely destroyed, but the port area remains largely intact, Qazet.az reports.

The man, said that six foreign flagged ships had been trapped in the harbour since the start of the war but “unlike the rest of the city, the port had suffered relatively little bombing".

Mariupol is the biggest port on the Sea of Azov and one of Ukraine’s biggest ports for the export of agricultural products. Its capture would be strategically important for Russia.