Ukraine: Europe's Biggest Steel Works Destroyed by Russian Strikes (Video)

One of Europe's biggest iron and steel plants, Azovstal, was badly damaged as the Russian forces lay siege to Ukraine's war-battered Mariupol.

Ukrainian lawmaker Lesia Vasylenko posted a video of explosions and we can see thick columns of grey and black smoke rising from the buildings.

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"One of the biggest metallurgic plants in Europe was destroyed. The economic losses for Ukraine are huge. The environment is devastated," she tweeted

On his part, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called the siege of Mariupol an unforgettable ‘war crime" as Russia's invasion of Ukraine entered Day 25.

Zelenskyy affirmed that the siege of Mariupol by Russian forces will go down in history as a war crime. "To do this to a peaceful city... is a terror that will be remembered for centuries to come," news agency Reuters quoted him as saying.