FACILITY UNDER FIRE Fresh smoke rises from the Azovstal steelworks plant in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol on Wednesday, May 4, 2022. AP PHOTO
ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine: A Russian-announced ceasefire was due to begin on Thursday at the besieged Azovstal steelworks plant in the devastated Ukrainian city of Mariupol to allow civilians there to flee, even as its defenders vowed to fight to the end.