Russia halts gas exports to Finland, says Mariupol steelworks siege has ended
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REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko KYIV/OSLO, May 21 (Reuters) - Russia claimed victory in a months-long battle for Mariupol's Azovstal steel plant, taking it a step nearer to its goal of controlling Ukraine's Donbas region, and halted gas exports to Finland in an escalation of an energy payment dispute with Western nations.Russia also launched what appeared to be a major assault to seize the last remaining Ukrainian-held territory in Luhansk, one of two provinces that make up the southeastern Donbas region and where Russian-backed separatists already controlled swathes of territory before the Feb. 24 invasion.The last Ukrainian forces holed up in Mariupol's smashed Azovstal steelworks surrendered on Friday, Russia's defense ministry said, ending the bloodiest siege of the war.
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