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By Tom Balmforth and Margaryta Chornokondratenko KYIV (Reuters) – A Ukrainian soldier holed up in a steel works in Mariupol said his forces would fight for as long as needed and he urged world leaders to find a way to save civilians and the hundreds of troops trapped in Russia’s “medieval” siege. Captain Sviatoslav Palamar, 39, a deputy commander of Ukraine’s Azov Regiment, spoke in an interview with Reuters from the steel works that is the last redoubt for the port city’s defenders. Russian forces have reduced large parts of Mariupol to ruins around the vast complex and its underground cataco…