A six-year-old girl has died from dehydration in her home after her mother was killed in the besieged city of Mariupol in Ukraine, officials have said.
The country's President Volodymyr Zelensky announced the death this morning in a video address, and said the girl's mother had been killed in the constant airstrikes a few days ago. Officials in the city of Mariupol, which has been bombarded by Russian forces for a week or more now, said the girl was 'alone, weak, frightened, thirsty', before she died, reported the Mirror.
The port city is a key target for Russian forces following their illegal invasion of Ukraine - it links Crimea with the territories they seized in 2014 in the east of the country. Mariupol has been left without electricity, heating or water supplies and the residents are trapped - Putin's forces have repeatedly set up 'escape corridors' and then bombed the civilians as they tried to leave.
