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Newsday: 17/05/2022 06:06 GMT : Ukrainian Azovstal defenders hailed as heroes

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17/05/2022 06:06 GMT : Ukrainian Azovstal defenders hailed as heroes

Ukrainian Azovstal defenders hailed as heroes

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More than 200 soldiers were evacuated from the besieged steelworks factory in Mariupol.

President Zelensky and the Ukrainian military have hailed as heroes more than two-hundred soldiers now evacuated from the long-besieged steelworks in Mariupol.  Others remain inside but the army says their mission is complete. 

Sri Lanka's new prime minister says the country is down to its last day of petrol as it faces its worst economic crisis in more than 70 years. 

And we continue our focus on the global cost of living crisis, this time in Italy where workers in the industrial centres are under financial pressure.

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