It is spring, late mid-late March of 2022.

Mariupol has been under siege for weeks. The city is a shattered ruin.

Ukrainian forces have been compressed into the Azovstal metallurgical plant and residual coastal pockets. Russian and DPR forces tighten the ring daily with artillery, air strikes, and probing assaults.

Thousands of civilians remain trapped in the plant’s underground levels alongside the garrison. Ammunition is critically low.

Medicine is almost gone. The sea is watched. No large-scale relief is coming.

You are about to step into this reality as either a defender inside the labyrinth of steel and concrete or an attacker trying to finish the reduction of the last major strongpoint.